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Forget the movie, it has little to do with the book.

Read the book, it has everything to do with a man's love for his father, who was one of the men who raised the flag, and who was a modest war hero who never told his family about the Navy Cross he received for bravery.

The book also deals with the non-bleeding wounds that some men suffer in battle that can't be treated but eventually kills, and of shirt-tailed kids who went away to war and became men.

The book's plot is not about the depression that started in 1929 or about Roosevelt. The story is built around how tough the battle of Iwo Jima really was. 6000 marines were killed in a two-month long battle securing this two-mile speck of black sulphur in the Pacific.

In a cemetery on Iwo Jima lies the 6000 Marines. At the entrance some unknown buddy carved a tribute to them on a nearby rock, it reads,

"When you go home
Tell them for us and say,
For your tomorrow,
We gave our today."

Cindy Sheehan, call your office.