>>>>If their dream is to be a cog in a wheel, its not the American dream.
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>>>It's nice of you to tell other Americans what they need to dream, but the last time I looked there was nothing in the constitution, the bill of rights or the declaration of independence that says that Mike Helland - or anyone else - gets to decide what the American dream is.
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>>>Regarding cogs in wheels - during WWII over 100 million GI's became cogs and almost 500K of them died so that you can tell me that being a cog in a wheel is not the American dream.
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>>2nd number could be, but 100 million is clearly wrong. If GI is meant Army exclusively, even more so. IIRC 2/3 were Army with a higher body count%.
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>Sovjet Union: 8,700,000 to 13,850,000 military deaths
>US : 416,800 (includes Merchant Marine (9,500) and Coast Guard (1,900))

I was going purely on head count, as in the seventies it was ~200 million. Also % of casualties would have been too tiny, even taking into account that not all were even deployed.