Fitzer's Index
Yes, I ripped off the idea from Harper's Index
Number of assault divisions that stormed the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944: 5
Number of years ago: 81
Number of ships: 7,000
The number of navy personnel on the ships crossing the channel: 195,000
Number of nations represented: 8
Troops delivered to Utah beach, Omaha beach, Gold beach, Juno beach and Sword beach: 133,000
Allies and Americans wounded or killed by the end of the day: 10,000
Estimated German casualties: between 4,000 and 9,000
Additional Allied troops delivered to the beachhead within days: 326,000
Vehicles: 50,000
Number of months after D-Day that it took American and Allied forces to utterly decimate and defeat Germany: 11
Percentage of American Adults in 2019 who recognized that D-Day was a major invasion in the Second World War: 73%
Who thought it took place during World War I: 9%
Who said the invasion was in the Korean War: 3%
Civil War: 1%
Not sure: 13%
Number of laid off workers the gov’t now says it’ll hire back at the National Weather Service: 100
Percentage of companies that have raised prices in response to tariffs: 75%
Percent who saw the Trump/Musk break up coming: 100%
Price of Elon Musk’s investment in Trump in the 2024 election: $290,000,000
Value the TrumpCoin lost during their breakup fight: $100,000,000
Tesla stock: $152,000,000,000
Loss per each hostile X tweet by Musk, calculated by Ron Filipowski: $9,000,000,000
Cost of Trump’s military birthday parade: $45,000,000
Amount Republican budget adds to deficits next 10 years: $2,400,000,000,000
Interest costs to service that debt over that time period: $551 billion
NIH Medical research grants canceled or delayed by Trump: 2500
Estimated number of children who will die because of Trump-DOGE cuts to foreign aid: nearly 400,000
Annually: 163,500
Number of children losing treatment for severe malnutrition: 2,300,000
Number of Gazans amused by Trump/ Musk breakup: 0
Russian casualties in Ukraine: 1 million
Amount NATO will increase military aid to Ukraine: €20,000,000,000
Number of Americans Secretary Luttnick says US will train for chip factories: 5,000,000
Percentage of white collar workers to be replaced by Artifical Intelligence in the next one to five years,: 50%
Last time unemployment was that high: 1933
Percentage of jobless then: 25%
CO2 levels reported this week: 430 parts per million
Last year: 423 ppm
Pre-industrial era: 280 ppm
Amount Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation will lose immediately from the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program due to Trump cuts: $1,500,000
Amount Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation was going to use for HIV testing and prevention that has been frozen: $619,000
Cut from national HIV vaccine research program: $258,000,000
Number of “No Kings” protests planned for June 14: 1500
Here in Tucson: 1
Oro Valley: 1
High temperature forecast for Tucson on June 14: 97°F
Years Trump’s entire family served in US armed forces: 0
Number of American service members buried in American Section of Normandy Cemetery: 9,387
REFS:
https://www.history.com/articles/d-day
https://economicprogressri.org/
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/general_lifestyle/june_2019/many_plead_ignorance_on_d_day
Brilliant. And thanks for remembering this day in history. Before TACO we would hear about the day in history all over the news. No more. Of course those of us born to WW2 heroes are dwindling. But we should remember. I had happened to be in London on Nov 11, and at 11am, the entire city population came down from the towers onto to the streets and lobbies to REMEMBER and honor those who fought for OUR freedoms. A minute of silence in the entire city. I’ll never forget but figure this too will wash away with time. No longer a collective memory. 💔♥️
Brilliant. Says it as it is…