We think times are rough. Maybe that is true. High gas prices. Everyone [who is fortunate enough to be married with children] has at least one child with problems such as ADD or the like. High tuition and other endless expenses. Lots of stress. And the list goes on and on. We are all struggling. But it is all relative:
World War One
The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I, was around 40-41 million. There were about 20 million deaths and 21 million wounded.
World War Two
Worldwide Casualties*
| Battle Deaths | 15,000,000 |
| Battle Wounded | 25,000,000 |
| Civilian Deaths | 45,000,000 |
*Worldwide casualty estimates vary widely in several sources. The number
of civilian deaths in China alone might well be more than 50,000,000.
That was the 20th century. Before that we didn't have electricity or running water or cars or airplanes or modern medicine or many things that today we can't live w/o for five minutes.
