The holidays are here, and so is the perfect way to bless your loved ones.

The Crosswalk holiday gift guide has something for everyone on your list.

The team at Crosswalk has handpicked the best devotionals, picture books, middle grade fiction,

and adult fiction, so that you can spend less time buying and more time giving to those

who love most.

So step these stories into your stockings and celebrate the wonder of reading this Christmas.

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War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding

right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its

size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for

understanding American history. Welcome to key

battles of American history, a podcast in which we discuss American history through the lens

of the most important battles of America's wars. Here is your host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to Key Battles of the Vietnam War, a 10,000-foot survey of the war

that defined a generation. I'm your host James Early, as always, and I am joined, as always,

by my good buddy, Sean McIver. Now, in our last two episodes, we discussed

the experiences of American and Vietnamese combat soldiers. In this episode, we're going to

focus on the experience of soldiers, Marines, sailors, and airmen who were wounded in action,

and after that, we'll discuss the experiences of servicemen on both sides who were captured and held as prisoners of war.

And finally, we're going to briefly discuss those who were MIA or missing in action.

Now, the precise number, or even a close estimate, to be honest, of the number of people killed, wounded, or taken prisoner during the Vietnam War will never be known.

However, by any estimation, the numbers were staggering.

The Arvin is believed to have had about 250,000 soldiers killed with about 1 million more wounded.

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