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"It is a crucial act of independent thinking to be skeptical of someone else's description of reality." ~ H. Zinn
Joe Rosenthal 10/9/1911-8/20/2006 R.I.P.
Iwo Jima
"This will be the bloodiest fight in Marine Corps history. We'll catch seven kinds of hell on the beaches, and that will just be the beginning. The fighting will be fierce, and the casualties will be awful, but my Marines will take the damned island."
~Holland M. "Howlin' Mad" Smith, LtGen, USMC
"Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner."
"The battle of Iwo Jima has been won. Among the Americans who served on Iwo, uncommon valor was a common virtue."
~Chester W. Nimitz, Fleet Admiral, USN
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