另外，在许多大陆网友的文章中，都犯了一个明显的错误，就是把失踪人数和在战俘营里死亡的人数也加入美军阵亡人数中，例如，曾看过有人说“美军死亡人数是 54246+8177+2701”（其中的8,177人是失踪，2,701人是在战俘营中死亡）。事实上这是重复计算。不论是54,246也好，还是 36,576也好，都已经包括了失踪和被俘后假设已经死亡的数字，他们不只是“作战中失踪”（missing in action），而是“作战中失踪且假设已死亡”，其家属领阵亡人员津贴都已经领了几十年了。当然也有家属不相信自己亲人死亡，认为可能还在北韩或西伯利亚某地活着，不过这都跟统计无关。
战区意外死亡的人数会多一些，这是难免的。有兴趣的，不妨看看 James Brady 的 The Coldest War 第24章最後几节，他谈到上山死人、严寒死人、连春暖解冻也死人。掩体上面沙袋吸了过多解冻雪水垮下来活埋、土石流山崩整个掩体从山边掉下去、後方预备队地区夜间演习踩到地雷、同僚手枪走火、紧急战备有人从车上摔下被碾死，.....。
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08/03/1953, Time Magazine, "At Last"
The war had cost the U.S. more than 140,000 casualties (some 25,000 dead, 102,000 wounded, 13,000 missing and captured), $22 billion.
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01/11/1954, Time Magazine, "Presumed Dead"
Last week the U.S. added 3,656 names to its list of Korean war dead. All the men —3,400 from the Army and 256 from the Air Force—had been classified "missing in action" for at least a year, now are "presumed dead." Still counted as missing: some 3,713 servicemen. New total of U.S. dead: 29,922.
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10年後，08/02/1963, Time Magazine, "A Place of 10 Million Words",
Winding past Pork Chop Hill, Heartbreak Ridge, Old Baldy and other blood-drenched ground, the Military Demarcation Line runs for 151 miles across the waist of Korea. It was drawn at a cost of 1,820,000 casualties, including 33,629 U.S. dead and 103,284 wounded.
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05/14/1969, Time Magazine, "Nixon"s Hard Choice in Vienam"
U.S. dead in Viet Nam now number 32,376, and the total is fast approaching the Korean War figure of 33,629.
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Robert Leckie, Conflict: The History of the Korean War, Avon Book: New York, 1962, 384 pages.
第331页，战斗死亡33,629，伤103,284。
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David Rees, Korea: The Limited War, St. Martins: New York, 1964.
附录C:战斗死亡33,629人。
滴爪牙看到这样的贴子是会不开心滴说！