Memorial Day is a federal holiday that honors and mourns American military personnel who died while performing their duties in service to the United States Armed Forces. The USA has been in 79 wars since 1776 . Click on that to see the details, but in every one of them, military life was lost. Total casualties ( deaths and wounded ) of the major ones: American Revolutionary 50,000 1812 20,000 Mexican-American 17,435 Civil 1,129,418 WWI 320,518 WWII 1,076,245 Korean 128,650 Vietnam 211,454 Afghanistan 22,266 Iraq 36,710 It is estimated that approximately 2.4% of military combat deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq were female . For all of the 79 wars, 1,354,664 were killed and 1,498,240 wounded. As a percent of deaths relative to the nation
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