13 ganaron la Medalla de honor, 6 de ellos Marines.
14, según el DoD.
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=28305
Pero veamos las otras cifras y otras fuentes.
Tengamos en cuenta que la población de origen hispano era del 5%. Para empezar suena extraño que de los drafts resultase que solo el 0.8% de los que sirvieron, fueran hispanos.
Y que todos los "others" sean hispanos...ya ni te cuento lo extraño que resulta.
Empecemos por la PBS.
The Vietnam War (referred to by Vietnamese as the American War) began for the United States in 1963 and ended with its military withdrawal in 1973. The war resulted in more than 58,000 dead and 300,000 wounded on the U.S. side, and close to 2 million Vietnamese civilian and military casualties.
Over 170,000 Hispanics served and 5.2% of them (over 3,000) died. The film Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam gives voice to a handful of those Hispanic soldiers.
Oral history has been a vital tool in preserving the social and cultural history of communities across the globe. It especially allows for the contribution of voices not included in traditional history texts or government documents. Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam, fits well in that tradition. The experiences of Chicano soldiers (soldados) have been largely absent from the historical record of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
The U.S. government did not even begin keeping separate statistics on Hispanics until 1979.
As a 26-minute long film, Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam is a perfect classroom tool to engage students in an examination of the Vietnam War. It raises a wide variety of issues, including the long-term impact of being a soldier, the difference in experiences for soldiers of color and white soldiers, how a country justifies going to war, and how Vietnam veterans were treated when they returned from combat.
Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam is also an excellent tool to help engage students in the process of doing oral history. Conducting oral history interviews provides students with a rich opportunity to look at history through the eyes of people in their own families or community. The technique requires students to engage in research, writing, speaking, interpreting, and editing. This lesson also adds media analysis skills.
http://www.pbs.org/pov/soldados/lesson_plan.php
Más.
170,000 Hispanics served in Vietnam; 3,070 (5.2% of total) died there.
Estas cifras las comparten unas cuantas asociaciones de veteranos.
http://www.vetshome.com/vietnam.htm
http://www.2ndaerialport.org
http://www.46thengineers.com
http://www.c1-8cav68.org/personal/vnvet.html
http://www.americanwarlibrary.com/vietnam/vwc20.htm
http://history-world.org/vietnam_war_statistics.htm
http://www.mrfa.org/vnstats.htm
http://www.namvets.com/reading/vietnam_warriors.htm
http://www.nam-vets.com/warstatistics.htm
http://www.njscvva.org/vietnam_war_statistics.htm
http://www.pjsinnam.com/vn_history/vn_w ... istics.htm
http://www.ptsdsupport.net/vietnam_warriors.html
http://www.safbtn.org/
http://tucsoncitizen.com/veteranveritas ... listen-up/
http://www.uswardogs.org/new_page_18.htm
http://www.veteranshour.com/vietnam_war_statistics.htm
http://www.vhcma.org/fact2.html
http://www.vvof.org/factsvnv.htm
http://yorkovich.net/gbc/?page_id=10
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HISPANIC-AMERICAN CASUALTIES
The 1970 census which is being used as our Vietnam era population base did not list an Hispanic count but gave an estimate of 4.5 percent of the American population. In a massive sampling of the database, it was established that between 5 and 6 percent of Vietnam dead had identifiable Hispanic surnames. These were Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban and other Latino-Americans with ancestries based in Central and South America. They came largely from California and Texas, with lesser numbers from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Florida, New York and a few from many other states across the country. Thus it is safe to say that Hispanic-Americans were over-represented among Vietnam casualties -- an estimated 5.5 percent of the dead against 4.5 percent of the 1970 population.
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/sh ... In-Vietnam
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The 1970 Census estimated Hispanic-Americans at 4.5% of the U.S. population, 9.148 million and an estimated 3.9% of the U.S. population in the 1960’s, 6.993 million [Cary Davis, Carl Haub, and JoAnne Willette, 1983. ‘US Hispanics: Changing the Face of America.' Population Bulletin, Vol. 38, No. 3, p. 8, Table 2].
Hispanic-Americans were over-represented among Vietnam casualties,
an estimated 7% of the casualties. The Vietnam War Casualty Summary Report 2003, prepared by the Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports, reported that there were 58,198 in-theater casualty deaths. It is estimated that 2,594,000 soldiers, sailors, and marines served in South Vietnam. It is estimated that there were
170,000 Hispanic airmen, soldiers, sailors, and marines who served in-theater during the Vietnam War. As in World War II and Korean War, Hispanics were identified as Caucasian. In addition, 17 prisoners of war and 65 missing in action airmen, soldiers, sailors, and marines of Hispanic heritage have been identified to date.
�� One out of every two Hispanics who went to Vietnam served in a combat unit
U.S. Latino Fatalities
3188
Puerto Rico Fatalities
348
Residing Outside U.S.
13
Total
3549
http://ocde.us/Multimedia/Veterans/Fact ... Update.pdf
Otro.
The U.S. government did not begin keeping separate statistics on Hispanics until 1979.[57] Therefore, the exact number of Hispanics who served in the Marine Corps during the Vietnam War era is unknown. The statistics that were kept by the Department of Defense, in accordance to the Vietnam War Statistics, included Hispanics among Caucasians. However, it is estimated that 170,000 Hispanics served in Vietnam and that 3,070 (5.2% of total) died there. This total includes those who served in the Marines
http://www.somosprimos.com/tony/tonymar ... arines.htm
A algunos se les va la mano...
In 1971 Ralph Guzmán brought the issue of race and war to the forefront and confirmed what many people in the Chicano movement had suspected. In his short but powerful article "Mexican American Casualties in Vietnam," Guzmán cites statistics that verify that Mexican American military personnel had higher death rates in Vietnam than all other ethnicities. His analysis of casualty reports from January 1961 to February 1967 and from December 1967 to March 1969 shows that a high percentage of young men with Spanish surnames were killed in Vietnam and that a substantial number of them were involved in high-risk branches of the service, such as the U.S. Marine Corps. Mexican Americans accounted for approximately 20 percent of U.S. casualties in Vietnam, although they made up only 10 percent of this country's population at the time.
http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exybavie.html
Since the early years of the American war in Southeast Asia, Latino communities have argued that their youth have been disproportionately placed in harm's way. When Dr. Ralph Guzmán published his study in which he argued that between 1961 and 1967 19.4% of combat casualties in Viet Nam were Mexican American (only 10% of the population of the Southwest at the time), Chicano and Chicana activists used the study to mobilize against the draft and ultimately against the war.
http://www.counterpunch.org/mariscal04012003.html
Ahora, si que si tu prefieres quedarte con las otras cifras, que sobre un 5% de la población eran un 0.8% de los que sirvieron, y de bajas, pues nada.
Saludos.
We, the people...
¡Sois todos un puñado de socialistas!. (Von Mises)
467 en toda la guerra??
. Considero totalmente improbable que para esa época el numero de Latinos en las fuerzas armadas de US fuera tan alto.
