[DoughtyOne]

One of Klinton's biggest donors is making a killing off the military that his idol dispised and gutted. The spoils of this movie will be spent to help elect people who stand diametricly opposed to everything I stand for, and I might add, everything that same military fought and shed their blood for.

[BlessingInDisguise]

The winter of 1945 huh? LoL.

[SICSEMPERTYRANNUS]

The battle, which took place in the winter of 1945, was a turning point in the Pacific Theater. In one month, 22,000 Japanese and 26,000 Americans died, and one of the outcomes was one of World War II's most enduring images: a photograph of six soldiers raising an American flag on the flank of Mount Suribachi, the island's commanding high point.

The number of U.S killed is way off. It was more like 7500. While still a large number, it's not quite 26,000. Semper Fi.


SIC (Forward)

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

An accurate portrayal of the battle of Iwo Jima will not be something a lot of people could sit through for two hours. It was almost a month of the most horrific killing the world has ever seen. Anyone who has read "Flags of Our Fathers" has got to be struck by the horror of what happened there.

There are the stories of young Marines, being surprised at night by the Japanese in the dark and stabbed to death with bayonets. Their buddies heard these young men scream out for their mommas as they died. I wept when I read the book.

The U.S. Navy ships offshore had so many dead and wounded Marines aboard, blood was running along the decks and pouring off the scuppers into the ocean. I knew a sailor who saw this.

This movie is going to be shown to Americans who can't even watch the video replays of September 11, 2001?

[xone]

26,000 Americans died? I don't think so. The Japanese dead is accurate I think all but 11.

[A.A. Cunningham]

a photograph of six soldiers raising an American flag

Five Marines and a sailor. No soldiers.

[PISANO]

World War II's most enduring images: a photograph of six soldiers raising an American flag on the flank of Mount Suribachi

In TODAY's PC culture, this enduring a lasting monument to those that paid the price with blood, life and limb, would be a NO-NO, lest we offend someone, anyone with the macho bravado claiming IWO JIMA for America. Remember the short-lived raising of our FLAG in Baghdad? Insanity rules!!