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We Australians probably feel it more when we lose people in wars, because of our much smaller population.  The Americans don't seem to back away from attrition.  A friend of mine was at the battle of Leyte Gulf in the Phillipines, on secondment  as a radio operator with the Americans.  He mentioned that there was a landing where the transports were getting hit by the Japanese, every time they got near land, but the Americans just kept on sending them in.