Biden Updates Iwo Jima Memorial With Pride Flag
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Babylon Bee ^
| June 13, 2023 | Babylon Bee
WASHINGTON, D.C. — As part of his administration's expanding efforts to celebrate Pride Month, President Joe Biden has announced the Iwo Jima memorial will be updated to feature the Pride flag. "This
flag is now the most revered symbol in our nation," Biden said during his announcement. "It's only right for the Iwo Jima memorial to be updated to represent the brave men and women and non-men and non-women and those other things who are fighting even more bravely than the soldiers of World War II. These fellas with breasts who were on my lawn — they're the true...
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Battle of Iwo Jima -- 19 Feb 1945 - 26 Mar 1945
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World War II Database ^
| Last Major Update: Sep 2006 | C. Peter Chen
The Allied forces suffered 25,000 casualties, with nearly 7,000 dead. Over
1/4 of the Medals of Honor awarded to marines in World War II were given for conduct in the invasion of Iwo Jima.The island of Iwo Jima was declared conquered by Chester Nimitz on 14 Mar 1945, noting that "all powers of government of the Japanese Empire in these islands are hereby suspended." However, he made the declaration too early, for that fighting had by no means ceased on the island. "Who does the admiral think he's kidding?" yelled Marine Private Bob Campbell. "We're still getting killed!" On 16...
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Fairfax County Democrat's bizarre rant about Battle of Iwo Jima should be rebuked
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Washington Examiner ^
| 2 Mar 2023 | ChristopherTremoglie
In today's society, there's an endless cycle of perpetual victimization in the oppression Olympics regarding who can claim to be the most offended or aggrieved. This
tiresome act was on full display recently during a school board meeting when one member of the board implied she was discriminated against for being Muslim because many people were confused by her statements that described the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima as "evil."Apparently, confusingly vague statements made by "woke" educators are yet another thing that is discriminatory in this country....Abrar Omeish, a Democrat and Fairfax County School Board member, made the...
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Virginia school official taking heat for saying Battle of Iwo Jima set record for ‘human evil’
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NY Post ^
| February 26, 2023 | Bruce Golding
A controversial Virginia school board member is taking heat for saying the Battle of Iwo Jima, a major US victory during World War II, “unfortunately happened” — and set a record for “human evil.” Abrar
Omeish made the stunning statements during a Thursday meeting of the Fairfax County School Board while discussing the US’s recent Japanese Day of Remembrance, which commemorates the 1942 internment of Japanese Americans by the US. “Something for us to certainly reflect on as we learn our history and think about it,” she said of the annual event. “The days when, you know, Iwo Jima unfortunately...
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Controversial member of woke Virginia school board slams Battle of Iwo Jima as 'evil': Previously moaned that moment of silence for 9/11 attacks 'caused harm'
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UK Daily Mail ^
| 2/26/2023 | Alex Hammer
The comments were made Thursday by Fairfax County board member Abrar Omeish, 28, in reference to the Day of Remembrance, a day of observance for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The holiday occurs on the same calendar day as the first US landings on the island of Iwo
Jima on February 19, 1945. Her father is also a member of the Board of Directors of a Fairfax mosque where three of the 9/11 hijackers had prayed before carrying out the heinous attacks. 'Just a few days ago was Japanese Day of Remembrance,' Omeish said Thursday, during...
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Controversial member of woke Virginia school board slams Battle of Iwo Jima as 'evil': Previously moaned that moment of silence for 9/11 attacks 'caused harm'
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UK Daily Mail ^
| 02/26/2023 | Alex Hammer
A member of the same Virginia school board that came under fire for withholding information about students' scholarships has raised eyebrows by saying the Battle of Iwo Jima, a major US victory against the Japan in World War II, was 'evil' and should not have happened. The
comments were made Thursday by Fairfax County board member Abrar Omeish, 28, in reference to the Day of Remembrance, a day of observance for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. The holiday occurs on the same calendar day as the first US landings on the island of Iwo Jima on...
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The Battle of Iwo Jima and the unbreakable Navajo Code
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Blogs VA Org ^
| February 19th, 2020 | News Sections: Native American Veterans
Peter MacDonald is one of the last remaining Navajo Code Talkers. The former chairman of the Navajo Nation recently sat down with VAntage Point staff to explain what made the “unbreakable” code so effective, and how it helped save lives and secure victory in the Pacific. “Without Navajo, Marines would never have
taken the island of Iwo Jima,” he said. “That’s how critical Navajo Code was to the war in the Pacific.” The Unbreakable Code Code Talkers used native languages to send military messages before World War II. Choctaw, for example, was used during World War I. The Marine Corps,...
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ULTIMATE INSULT: Taliban Mock Joe Biden and US – Recreate Iconic Iwo Jima Photo Wearing US Military Uniforms with Islamic Flag
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THE MILLENNIAL POST ^
| August 21, 2021 | Jim Hoft
A group of Taliban fighters released a collection of propaganda footage, including a photo where they mocked the famed World War II picture of soldiers raising the American flag on Iwo Jima.In the original 1945 photograph, a group of six Marines are depicted hosting the flag on Mount Suribachi.The Taliban’s Badri 313
Battalion recreated the image this week.
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Taliban soldiers MOCK iconic World War II image of American Marines raising flag on Iwo Jima as soldiers don US military gear in propaganda footage
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dm ^
| 8/21/2021 | y CHRIS JEWERS and CHRISTOPHER EBERHART and NATASHA ANDERSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
A group of Taliban fighters released a collection of propaganda footage this past week including a photo appearing to mock the famed World War II picture of soldiers raising the American flag on Iwo Jima. In the original 1945 photograph, a group of six Marines are depicted hosting the flag on Mount
Suribachi. The Taliban's Badri 313 Battalion recreated the image this week.
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Retired marine whose troops planted US flag on Iwo Jima dies
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The Associated Press ^
| August 6, 2021
SAN DIEGO — Dave Severance, a retired U.S. Marine colonel whose troops were the first to plant an American flag over the Japanese island of Iwo Jima during World War II, has died. He
was 102. Severance died Monday at his home in the San Diego suburb of La Jolla, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. On Feb. 23, 1945 about 40 members of Severance’s company were sent up Mount Suribachi with orders to plant the flag. A short time later, another group was sent up with a second flag to replace the first. That iconic image was captured by...
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Taliban celebrates Joe Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan by recreating iconic Iwo Jima photo
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Twitter ^
| July 30, 2021 | Hans
The Taliban recreating the Iwo Jima pic with their own flag and captured U.S. military gear.
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Honoring the 160 Marines killed on this day on Iwo Jima
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Unto the Breach ^
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Chris Carter
Most of us alive today can’t even begin to imagine the nightmare that our young men endured on Iwo Jima 76 years ago. Feb.
25, 1945 was two days after the Marines famously raised the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, but the Japanese defenders would throw everything they had at the Americans until they have nothing left, and 160 Marines lost their lives on this date. Most of these men are teenagers, fresh from high school — if they even stayed long enough to graduate. 36 lived long enough to leave behind widows. In addition to those listed as “missing-killed...
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This Day in History: Feb. 23, 1945, U.S. Marines raise the Flag on Mount Suribachi on the Island of Iwo Jima
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Feb. 23, 2021
76 years ago today, Feb. 23, 1945, U.S. Marines raise the American Flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima.
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President Trump meets World War II Iwo Jima veterans at the White house (great photos)
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Flickr ^
| 3/3/2020 | The White house
"President Donald J. Trump meets World War II Iwo Jima veteran John J. Sheridan, 95, and his daughter Dianne Fairbaugh on Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House." "President Donald J. Trump salutes World War II Iwo Jima veteran Ira Rigger, 97, and his wife
Yong Rigger during their visit Tuesday, March 3, 2020, in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House."
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On Point: Remembering Iwo Jima
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Strategy Page ^
| 24 Feb 2020 | Austin Bay
February 24, 2015 From Feb. 19, 1945 (when U.S. Marines assaulted its beaches) to March 27 of that year (the day combat officially ceased), the island of Iwo Jima was hell on earth. In
2009 I began writing occasional columns commemorating the 70th anniversary of key WW2 battles and events. I dedicated them to the WW2 generation. Twenty-year-old Marine vets of February 1945 are now 90, if they are still among us. Iwo Jima was on my list of must-cover subjects. By sheer coincidence, my wife and I spent this past weekend in Dallas, Texas, with the sister of a...
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Footage of Catholic Mass before Iwo Jima
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Presidential Message on the 75th Anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima
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whitehouse.gov ^
| 2/19/20 | President Trump
In the long record of American heroism in combat, few episodes capture the indomitable will and the stouthearted spirit of the American warrior better than the triumphs on the island of Iwo Jima in early 1945. Seventy-five
years later, we pay tribute to the immeasurable sacrifice of those killed in action on Iwo Jima, and we honor the heroic efforts of all who took part in one of the most costly and significant battles in our country’s history. By February 1945, despite American forces possessing aerial and naval supremacy, the Japanese forces at Iwo Jima were well dug-in and prepared...
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The Boys of Iwo Jima were men and so much more than the snowflakes of today
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vanity | February 19, 2019 | By Kevin Collins
On February 19, 1945, waves of 18, 19 and 20-year-old Marines hit the beaches of Iwo Jima, a heavily defended island held by the Japanese. The importance of taking Iwo Jima and converting it into a major airfield for American bombers, cannot be overestimated. Our
planes needed a place to land and be repaired to continue their devastating attacks on Japan; and only courage and blood could secure the landing fields they needed to get the job done. Those young Iwo Jima Marines who are still alive, are great grandfathers now with the youngest survivors being 92 years old. We...
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Today we honor the men of Iwo Jima
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The Coach's Team ^
| 2/19/18 | Kevin "Coach" Collins
Seventy three years ago today the United States Marine Corps sent waves of teenaged men onto the black foreboding beaches on a Japanese held island called Iwo Jima. Capturing Iwo Jima was essential to the American war against Japan as it offered a place for battered bombers to safely land which would
save the lives of hundreds of airmen returning from sorties over Japan in barely flyable planes. The average age of these men was just under nineteen. They knew what was at stake and charged up Iwo’s beaches sometimes straight into enemy machine gun fire that would have stopped...
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Oldest surviving officer in Battle of Iwo Jima dies
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News4Jax ^
| 2-20-17 | By Mike Vasilinda
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The oldest surviving officer from the Battle of Iwo Jima has died. Lt.
Gen. Larry Snowden died over the weekend at the age of 95 in the state Capitol. Those who knew him called him a Marine's Marine, and a general's general. Snowden was a 23-year-old captain, commanding 200 men at Iwo Jima. Snowden told News4Jax in 2013 that one of WWII’s most famous battles was far different than the romanticized version. “I've read many accounts that says when the flag went up, the troops all over the island stood up and cheered. No way," Snowden said....
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