Memorial Day is to remember the fallen

America has lost around 1,500,000 soldiers in its wars over the last 250 years. Over time technology has replace lives in battles, but people still die and suffer to forward the policies and ideals of our country. I took a quick look at the deaths of soldiers in terms of overall US populations to try to quantify the impact of war on the general population. I think it is interesting that the Wars we mostly widely discuss are those that highest percentage of deaths relative to overall population. Hopefully the trend of fewer paying the price will continue.

War	Deaths	US Population	% of population
Revolution	25000	3929214	0.636%
1812	20000	7329881	0.273%
Mexican	13283	12866020	0.103%
Civil	625000	31443321	1.988%
WWI	116516	91972266	0.127%
WWII	405349	131669275	0.308%
Korean	53686	150697361	0.036%
Vietnam	58206	203302031	0.029%
Terror	5716	281421906	0.002%