U.S. Marine after 2 days on Eniwetok 1944; Wikimedia Commons

 

 

The moon gives you light,
And the bugles and the drums give you music;
And my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans,
My heart gives you love.

– from Walt Whitman “Dirge for Two Veterans” in Leaves of Grass 1867.

 

American War Deaths

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_of_war