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From: cwbkworm@comcast.net [mailto:cwbkworm@comcast.net]
List Editor: "Harris, Robert" <HarrisR@WPUNJ.EDU>
Editor's Subject: REPLY: Casualty figures
Author's Subject: Re: QUERY: Casualty figures
Date Written: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:01:14 -0400
Date Posted: Fri, 29 Oct 2009 16:01:14 -0400

Dead, wounded, missing in action, and captured are included in casualty
figures. We have grown accustomed to the word being used for dead.

One also must consider that death figures really don't include those who later
die as a result of their wounding.

Janet L. Bucklew

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