Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatte der Krieg bereits einer halben Million Vietnamesen und 45 000 Amerikanern das Leben und die USA 150 Billionen $ gekostet. ###>That war ended only when American citizens jerked themselves out of their somnolence, exercise their critical faculties and protested, but by then half a million Vietnamese and 45 000 Americans had been killed and the war had cost the USA $150 billion.