68th Anniversary of Battle of Iwo Jima - 23 February 2013 (1 Viewer)

[BLReed]

Reflecting on the 68th Anniversary of Battle of Iwo Jima
http://nation.foxnews.com/battle-iwo-jima/2013/02/22/reflecting-68th-anniversary-battle-iwo-jima

Part of the Story
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima



The Iwo Jima photo and the man who helped save it
By Paul Farhi, The Washington Post

"The battle had raged for four days, and would continue for 31 more, a marathon of sand and heat and unrelenting death. But at that moment there was an order from the brass: Get a bigger flag up there. The small American flag fluttering atop Mount Suribachi, the volcanic peak on the island, was too small to be seen by the troops fighting below.

From his makeshift command post near a captured Japanese airstrip, a 24-year-old Marine combat photographer named Norm Hatch began to scramble.

The next few hours, and the days immediately following, would thrust Hatch into the story of one of the most famous photographs in history, taken 68 years ago this week on the speck of rock in the Pacific Ocean called Iwo Jima..........."

The complete article from the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...11ab6c-77af-11e2-aa12-e6cf1d31106b_story.html

 

[semperrandyfi]

Add this debacle to the next bloodbath at Okinawa......Praise be to Allah for the atomic bombs.Millions of lives were SAVED because of their employment.