Vietnam War stats

I'm a history geek, and I think I've admitted that before. Tonight I was going through my bookmarks and I found this web page: Vietnam War deaths by month. I apparently needed this information at some point, but I can't remember when. Anyway, as I looked through the numbers, I was little surprised to learn that the deadliest month in Vietnam between 1966 and 1971 was April 1969. In that month, 543 U.S. soldiers. In comparison to World War II, where we could easily lose 543 in a single battle, that number is surprisingly low. The Vietnam War's death toll of 55,000 plus U.S. soldiers was truly a product of the length of that conflict.