[Dubya]

Five Marines and a Navy hospital corpsman raise the flag on
Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, using a piece of Japanese pipe as
a mast, February 23, 1945. Three of the flag raisers were
later killed as the fighting raged on. By March 16, when
Iwo Jima was declared secured, 6,821 Americans and 21,000
Japanese (the entire force) had died. The flag raising
photo and subsequent statue came to symbolize being a Marine.

[Dubya]

Allied POWs with hands tied behind their backs pause during
the Bataan Death March. About 76,000 prisoners including
12,000 Americans were forced on the 60 mile march under a
blazing sun without food or water toward a
new POW camp in the Philippines. April 1942.