Wednesday, November 28, 2012
World War II vets death rate around 700 a day
One Angry Zebra lost his 88 year old father a few days ago. He was in the big one, and Korea. I lost my father in law about 6 years ago, right at the top of the bell curve, I read for a few weeks they fell at near 10,000 a day. A higher mortality rate than they faced in battle. Only a year ago the rate was 1,130 a day, it will dip below 500 in the next year and to a handful a decade out. Currently the youngest vets are 86, well a few lied about their age going in and may be as young as 83. Most are in their early 90's, a lucky few are over 100. 700 funerals a day, amazing.
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Nothing amazing about the fact old people die. No one lives forever. The median age of living WWII veterans is somewhere around 93, life expectancy for all men living today is about 76. Maybe the amazing thing is that there are still quite a few WWII vets alive and in reasonably good shape considering how old they all are.
ReplyDeleteNan, It's the sheer volume of people that is amazing, 16 million served during the war.
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