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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dennishoddy" data-source="post: 4345351" data-attributes="member: 5412">Blame that on the politicians, not the Military. Don't tell the ones that served there it wasn't a war. This table contains record counts based on the codes recorded in the “CASUALTY CATEGORY” field of the Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File. In the case of the “PRESUMED DEAD (BODY REMAINS RECOVERED)” and “PRESUMED DEAD (BODY REMAINS NOT RECOVERED)” categories of the table, the record counts are based on the codes in both the “CASUALTY CATEGORY” and “REMAINS RECOVERED” fields.<table style='width: 100%'><tr><th>Casualty Category</th><th>Number of Records </th></tr><tr><td>ACCIDENT</td><td>9,107 </td></tr><tr><td>DECLARED DEAD</td><td>1,201 </td></tr><tr><td>DIED OF WOUNDS</td><td>5,299 </td></tr><tr><td>HOMICIDE</td><td>236 </td></tr><tr><td>ILLNESS</td><td>938 </td></tr><tr><td>KILLED IN ACTION</td><td>40,934 </td></tr><tr><td>PRESUMED DEAD (BODY REMAINS RECOVERED)</td><td>32 </td></tr><tr><td>PRESUMED DEAD (BODY REMAINS NOT RECOVERED)</td><td>91 </td></tr><tr><td>SELF-INFLICTED</td><td>382 </td></tr><tr><td>Total Records</td><td>58,220 </td></tr></table>It was a war, not a game.</blockquote>