{"id":29267,"date":"2011-11-11T17:24:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/veterans_day_statistics\/"},"modified":"2011-11-11T17:24:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-11T17:24:34","slug":"veterans_day_statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29267","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Day Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the numbers for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.va.gov\/opa\/vetsday\/docs\/2011_veterans_day_teacher_guide.pdf\">the six wars listed on page 17<\/a>. The numbers that follow here are from the list in the previous article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>21.8 million: The number of military veterans in the United States in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>1.6 million: The number of female veterans in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>2.4 million: The number of black veterans in 2010. Additionally, 1.2 million veterans were Hispanic.<\/p>\n<p>9 million: The number of veterans 65 and older in 2010. At the other end of the age spectrum, 1.7 million were younger than 35.<\/p>\n<p>7.6 million: Number of Vietnam-era veterans in 2010. Thirty-five percent of all living veterans served during this time (1964-1975). In addition, 4.8 million served during the Gulf War (representing service from Aug. 2, 1990, to present); 2.1 million in World War II (1941-1945); 2.6 million in the Korean War (1950-1953); and 5.5 million in peacetime only.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the numbers for the six wars listed on page 17. The numbers that follow here are from the list in the previous article: 21.8 million: The number of military veterans in the United States in 2010. 1.6 million:<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29267\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,209,143,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-defense-national-security-military","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}