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Botany

(76,721 posts) Mon Mar 30, 2020, 09:25 AM Mar 2020

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We have now passed Pearl Harbor. So far, 2490 Americans have died of COVID-19.

"The total number of military personnel killed was 2,335, including 2,008 navy personnel, 109 marines,
and 218 army. Added to this were 68 civilians, making the total 2403 people dead."

https://visitpearlharbor.org/faqs/how-many-people-died-at-pearl-harbor-during-the-attack/

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We have now passed Pearl Harbor. So far, 2490 Americans have died of COVID-19. (Original Post) Botany Mar 2020 OP

Next it will surpass 9/11. Marcuse Mar 2020 #1

And then the Iraq war (4,497) and then Vietnam and then .... Botany Mar 2020 #2

Marcuse

(8,849 posts)

1. Next it will surpass 9/11.

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Mon Mar 30, 2020, 11:13 AM

Mar 2020

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Botany

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2. And then the Iraq war (4,497) and then Vietnam and then ....

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Mon Mar 30, 2020, 11:25 AM

Mar 2020

We will (if we are still alive) pass all the wars we have ever combined. I hope I'm wrong
but I have run the #s and came up with 3,960,000.

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