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Roy Exum: Our Flag At Iwo Jima Wednesday, February 24, 2021 - by Roy Exum
Roy Exum
This morning marks the 76
th anniversary of the sun coming up on Mount Suribachi and, as it lit the dawn, every warrior in one of the most merciless battles in the Pacific theater could see the American flag on the crest of the 554-feet-tall hill. The battle to secure the island was perhaps the most intense fighting in World War II.
Almost 7,000 Marines and Navy Seabees were killed on the heavily fortified 8-square-mile island between February 19 and March 26 in 1945 while the Japanese lost approximately - get this number 28,000. (Remember, in just five weeks!) Only 214 of the enemy were able to surrender after five weeks of horrors, with as many as 3,000 Japanese hiding in the 11 miles of tunnels on the three-by-five-mile island.
22 January 2021 • 12:02am
A man walks along Green Street in east London, a normally busy street that is now a road of boarded up shops
Credit: PA/Stefan Rousseau
SIR – Ministers should disregard public opinion polls when determining the timetable for lifting restrictions that affect different segments of the population so inequitably. The social and economic consequences of lockdown disproportionately hurt the young and the poor.
Older people are fortunate to have been prioritised in the vaccine rollout. They are not home schooling their children or losing their livelihoods and businesses, nor will they be among the future generations required to pay off the colossal national debt accrued under lockdown policies.