- By David Horowitz Editor-in-Chief
FrontPageMagazine.com
President of the Center for the Study of Popular
Culture
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- We live in an age of lies manufactured by progressives
to discredit America and its promise and to do this, above all, by sowing
racial and ethnic hatred - in particular by spreading destructive myths
among black Americans to make them hate their own country.
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- One of the most widespread of these myths is that black
Americans fought and died in extraordinarily high proportions in the
Vietnam
War relative to the rest of the population. This was ostensibly the result
of American racism and is a reason given by many blacks (a leftwing
minority
to be sure) for why they are so ready to betray their country in the
current
war and line up with Osama bin Laden and his friends.
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- This came up the other day in an e-mail exchange with
a black friend of mine. The short answer (and truth) is that the only
ethnic
group that died in greater numbers than their proportion in the population
in the Vietnam conflict was whites.
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- Here are the facts:
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- During the Vietnam War era (draft era to be precise)
blacks of military age made up 13.5 percent of the total population, but
only 9.7 percent of the Vietnam era military forces were black.
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- 88.4 percent of the men who actually served in Vietnam
were white.
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- 10.6 percent of the men who actually served in Vietnam
were black.
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- 86.3 percent of the men who died in Vietnam were
white.
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- 12.5 percent of the men who died in Vietnam were
black.
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- 86.8 percent of the men who were killed in actual battle
were white.
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- 12.1 percent of the men who were killed in actual battle
were black.
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- In sum, while the percentage of blacks of military age
was 13.5 percent of the population, they accounted for 12.1percent of the
deaths in Vietnam.
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- The black soldiers who gave their lives for freedom in
Vietnam should be honored by all of us. But we should all remember to honor
the country - America - which is the only country in the world - black
nations included - where an ethnic minority is guaranteed protection
against
being sent to be slaughtered for the color of their skin or their ethnic
background.
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- I hereby open the pages of Notepad to all those - black
and white - who have slandered this country over the death rates in
Vietnam,
should they wish to apologize.
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- Sources for these figures
are based on: Department of Defense, US Casualties in Southeast "Asia
by Grade and Military Service, Hostile and Non-Hostile Deaths from 1
January
1961 through 31 December 1978 by Race (unpublished).
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