I figured it out once, a man was killed every 7.4 minutes on Iwo Jima for 35 days, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Staggering.
It is staggering. The casualties of past wars boggle the imagination.
I had an uncle die at Anzio.
I had an uncle that survived Iwo Jima. He never talked about the war...but for some reason a couple of months before he died...he wanted to talk. He talked about how hard the landing was and how almost impossible the invasion was. But they won.
I hung up the phone and cried.