The dog tags of 58,307 Male US soldiers killed during the Vietnam War at the Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago.
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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This is sickening especially after it was admitted, Gulf of Tonkin incident didn’t happen like they said it did.
58,307 people that should never had died in the first place. I am a veteran and love my veteran bros’n’hoes and seeing this makes me angry as to why our government felt 58.307 human lives were worth achieving absolutely nothing.
That’s a powerful display
My Vietnam vet grandpa went and saw this. It really hit him hard.
This kind of thing is very painful to watch. A man is not born to give his life in this way.
For those asking, 265 American women died in this war.
Fortunate to have seen this.
Dead because politicians are power hungry, sending innocent men to kill other innocent men.
If we didn’t stick our noses where they didn’t belong they wouldn’t have died
They lied about Vietnam, remember that.
The age of some of those fallen soldiers is shocking some fresh out of high school. Just kids.
Such a powerful image. A visualisation of the waste of so many young, brave, people. The optimist in me would hope we would learn from such an image, but naturally we do not.
All for what again ?
Impressive, very sad. Now lets see Vietnams version. *look at the tens of tousands of death certificates. Mostly just civilians… oh my god, we left bombs that kill people still*
We should have left those poor farmer families alone.
I want to run my hand through it
That’s 58,307 happiest days of parents’ lives, 58,307 first steps, 58,307 first days of school, 58,307 graduations, and 58,307 worst days of their loved ones’ lives. Fuck war and fuck the “leaders” who send troops to die for nothing.
Even now many Iraqi- Afghan veterans aren’t treated well, the war was wrong based on more lies for the interests of a few. We keep doing this sadly we haven’t seemed to learn.
A stadium full of dead young men. All for nothing.
should have stayed home
let the rich kill themselves
Two of these and you’d have Russia’s end of “Ukraine Special Action”‘s dead soldiers.
(so far)
Carter pardoned all the draft dodgers.
Now every of these 58307 former lives isnt anymore than a number and a scrapsheet of metal.
why?
for what?
yeah.
My uncle loved Vietnam. 4 tours complete loony tunes.
And to think, Vietnam now makes nice clothes and shit for the American consumer. Maybe we got the cart before the horse back then – get them in the supply chain as an alternative to invasion? Maybe 58,000 would be alive today?
all died for nothing
I read dog turds I am so sorry
I’m so glad they gave their lives for…
What was it again?
I could get on here and agree or disagree with a lot of the post but I will just say “Miss you Dad.”
Would make for one hell of a wind chime.
My grandpa is one of the most devout Catholics you’ll ever meet and he once told me, in no uncertain terms,
“If LBJ isn’t burning in Hell, then there is no God”
Where are the female dog tags??
Super weird to insert the word ‘male’ into this title. It’s not only men. The artists clearly talk about service members in their public statements about it, too.
Why the “male” part?
1. shouldn’t those go to the families?
2. died for absolutely no reason other than the US being powerhungry
3. i hope there is also a place that teaches about the atrocities these soldiers committed
I’m sitting here wondering why OP chose to specifically state “Male” soldiers rather than just saying “soldiers”?
Harrowing, knowing it was fought over the silly ideology of whose system of economic management is better.
The price for pride
Seeing it like this really puts it into perspective. You hear about millions in world wars and hundreds of thousands with Russia invading Ukraine. Hearing 58,000 is small in comparison and then you see this display and it puts the reality of the size of the number into perspective. Really makes you feel for them and the people that lost loved ones
now do Russia in WWII
God I haven’t even met that many people in my life.. RIP
Goosebumps
Seen it in person several times
😭
Incredible display.
I want any politican advocating for war to have to sit and read out the name of every single one of these veterans.
If they can’t even do that, they sure as hell aren’t qualified to send people to die. (They never are).
Mind blowing to think of what each dog tags’ owner experienced. So many stories and lives here.
Respect and appreciation.
How did that many people die in a library, paper cuts? We really should have learned about this in school. /s
Is this dehumanizing or the other way around?