28% of children in my birth year died of a preventable cause.

Twenty-eight percent.  Just shy of 1/3.

1,566,900 of them.

 In the USA alone.

One million, five hundred sixty-six thousand, nine hundred.

In just one year: 1989.

From a completely preventable cause.

1,566,900 is a very large number. To give it a little perspective, consider that the total number of US service members killed or wounded in the Vietnam war (1964-1975) was 243,523.

This means that more than a MILLION MORE children died in ONE single year, than all the United States casualties in the entire ten-year Vietnam war.

I just…thought you should know.

I try to keep things mostly sweetness and light around here…but I needed to share this with y’all. It’s something I don’t talk about much, but live with every day.