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US Marines land on Iwo Jima to mark anniversary
Seattle Times ^
| 03/02/10
| Eric Talmadge
Posted on 03/02/2010 11:20:28 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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Keep this countries proud history alive and teach it in the classroom again!......
To: AngelesCrestHighway
HBO is doing a series called The Pacific starting on March,
14th about the Marines.
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:24:08 AM PST
by
Dr. Ursus
To: AngelesCrestHighway
how could this article not have included pics?
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:24:30 AM PST
by
GeronL
(Political Philosophy: I Own Me (yep, boiled down to 6 letters))
To: AngelesCrestHighway
God Bless the Greatest Generation
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:24:57 AM PST
by
TSgt
(RE-ELECT NOBODY - VOTE THEM ALL OUT!)
To: GeronL
Because the ceremony has taken place.
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:26:25 AM PST
by
oneamericanvoice
(Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
To: GeronL
To: GeronL
Oops! Meant to say that the ceremony had not taken place yet. It’s tomorrow, March 3rd.
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:27:47 AM PST
by
oneamericanvoice
(Support freedom! Support the troops! Surrender is not an option!)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
I’m sure our President will be sure to mark the anniversary... with an apology to Japan.
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:28:30 AM PST
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
To: AngelesCrestHighway
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:29:44 AM PST
by
Mr. Jazzy
("I AM JIM THOMPSON and moderates make me PUKE!!!")
To: AngelesCrestHighway
My dad was at Iwo - I’d better give him a call.
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:30:04 AM PST
by
stormer
To: AngelesCrestHighway
I’m retired USAF, but d*mn, I love the marines.
Except dead Murtha - but then again, I’m sure that the marines have written that slug out of their records anyway.
To: stormer
Please pass our heartfelt thanks on to him for his service. Reading Flag of our Fathers gave me a miniscule idea of what the invasion was like; very, very difficult to read. God Bless him and all those who served.
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:33:20 AM PST
by
GoldwaterChick
(We Snowflakes will always remember our beloved Snowman with the incandescent smile.)
To: stormer
“My dad was at Iwo - Id better give him a call.”
Your dad carries his cojones around in a wheelbarrow.
He’s da man!!
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Note John Kerry's name at top right of The New Soldier
John Kerry, from his book, The New Soldier
"We will not quickly join those who march on Veterans' Day waving small [American] flags, calling to memory those thousands who died for the 'greater glory of the United States.'..."
"The John Kerry quote comes in the epilogue to "The New Soldier," the book put out by Vietnam Veterans Against the War [VVAW]. The book's cover features a group of not-particularly sober-looking anti-war protesters (vets, presumably) flying the American flag upside down [while mocking the historic flag raising event at Iwo Jima]":
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1203164/posts
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Click here for info about the book and the event:
http://www.randomhouse.com/features/jamesbradley/index3.html
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:34:20 AM PST
by
ETL
(ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
To: AngelesCrestHighway
Yes, the great photo of the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi is a glaring omission.
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:34:37 AM PST
by
luvbach1
(Worse than we could have imagined.)
To: stormer
My uncle earned a Bronze star on Iwo
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:34:39 AM PST
by
brickdds
To: MikeWUSAF
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:35:03 AM PST
by
luvbach1
(Worse than we could have imagined.)
To: MikeWUSAF
Most stories about Iwo fail to mention that the capture of the island, and its use as an emergency landing base for the B-29's that were bombing Japan daily, saved between 15,000-25,000 USAAF lives. Some 2,500 planes made emergency landings there. Indeed, the first plane to take advantage of Iwo landed in the water just offshore from the Marine beaches on te 3rd day of the invasion..
BTW..great tag line..
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posted on
03/02/2010 11:36:48 AM PST
by
ken5050
(Save the Earth..It's the only planet with chocolate!!!)
To: Mr. Jazzy
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