Secondly, and so very important is: I have listed the deaths and MIA's immediately on the left hand side, most of which are from WW I and WW II. But other war deaths that are included in some of the figures are those from the time of our Civil War, Spanish-American, Korean and VietNam Wars -as well as others. But because the others do not number even to forty thousand (except for our Civil War, of which at least half were never recovered or accounted for) I have left them included.
It is impossible to separate these deaths because, for a period of time, in a very few cemeteries, the World Wars remains were buried in these cemeteries as well as with those from other wars, until the world governments decided that because so many had died in these great wars, they should have memorial places of their own. Since that time to the present, all veterans of the great wars have been given a place of rest for themselves, be it the family plot, buried abroad -where they laid down their lives, or brought back to America's Free Shores to rest in our own National Cemeteries.
I have listed, to date, the DEATHS and MIAs first, because the sheer magnitude of the price paid in keeping America FREE needs to be immediately seen to be understood.
Thereafter, the table is rather self-explanatory. For our American Cemeteries (A C below = American Cemetery, not listed, but is a suffix of all of the cemeteries below) we then have the name of cemetery, country of cemetery, and which war (explicity WW I or WW II, or "other". In no way do I mean to undermine the pages of the ABMC, but rather, have hoped to capsulize it for greater understanding. In future, I will create links under the "name of cemetery", for access to the ABMC site for that particular cemetery.
One last note here. These are not the only American Military cemeteries world wide. Rather, these are the ones that, specifically, the ABMC, or the American Battle Monuments Commission, cares for.
Thank you.
