How many Vietnam Vets die per day?

Well, we're getting older. Not a big surprise. Every war has its last surviving veteran. I wonder who it will be for us?

That stat is not true and is totally overshoot. That means that 142,550 die each year. No freaking way. If that was true they will all be dead within 5 years.

The hardest thing about Vietnam was coming home.

When I get there, I'll let you know.

Sebastian Junger's TED Talk on PTSD and alienation in America addresses the driver in veteran suicides.

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I understand out of the 2.9 million of us who served in Vietnam, two thirds are already deceased. At 390 deaths a day, that's a little over fourteen thousand a year. In about seven years there may still be a few World War Two vets around, but its unlikely there will be any of us.

Too damn many.

Just think if you were a WWII vet! Unfortunately like every other war it is becoming our turn now

Are your numbers suggesting suicide, old age or a more sinister plot? I hate to see anyone pass away but people in their late 60's are known to pass away due to sickness and injury.

I entered into the service a few years after Vietnam and the draft ended. I stayed in the service for over a decade and one day decided I was ready to move on. I left and got my degree in Healthcare. I have now been in practice for 20 years. In the early part (first decade) of my practice, WWII Vets were dying in droves. Then, it began to slow. Now, Korean Era and MORE Vietnam Era are dying. There is a common thread I see in the Vietnam Vets deaths. Respiratory ailments including increased incidence of cancer (agent orange-although out Gov said it wasn't so for the first 2.5 decades after the war, they now admit it). Every other Vet we have on case load now is a Vietnam era Vet. I do not know how many are dying but it seems rthat early to mid-60's is when the Vietnam vets are dying.

My math could be wrong but I think the minimum age for Vietnam era today would be 58 (age 17 in 1975). I see a lot of the homeless folks from the Viet era (especially from the Tet Offensive) through my motorcycle group bringing food supplies and blankets and coats. Most of them are living under bridges, exposed to the weather. It's hard to get them into shelters due to distrust, fear of authority. So that is a major contributing factor. Others have no will to live. They are just existing. Sad that America couldn't give honor where honor was due.

This is just heartbreaking