Mortality

There were about 175 people in my high school class (1969). 17 of them have died, roughly 10%. I didn't think too much about this when I first found out. Talking to a spouse of one of my classmates, who went to a different but similar size school, I find out that only one or two of their classmates had died. Some time ago I remember talking to a guy from Arizona who told me that half of the guys from his high school class had been killed in Vietnam. Don't have any idea how much truth there was in that statement, but I suppose it's possible. A lot of young guys did die in Vietnam.