The absolute numbers provide context for people to compare this current tragic loss of life with past tragic losses of life. It’s an important caveat, though,

The absolute numbers provide context for people to compare this current tragic loss of life with past tragic losses of life. It’s an important caveat, though, that we don’t know the total number of dead from the Vietnam War. The numeric threshold we’ve crossed is for American soldiers killed. A number that includes the Vietnamese in that increases to the hundreds of thousands or into the millions.