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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.
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we were getting more and more vaccines. people said alex, you are going into a dying field, forget it and he said no, think you are wrong. and he was correct as you know. we haven t exactly vanquished all of the microbes in the world but he couldn t get anybody to be interested in joining this group. fortunately we were in the middle of the korean war. and there was a doctor so the doctors didn t want to go into the army and when they joined the eyes it gave them an out. they spent two years in this program rather than two years in the military. by the time the doctor draft ended with the vietnam war, it had become a well-known organization and they didn t need the doctor draft. anyway, there was a bigger than life character. if you read a book you will see he s sort of his daughter said that when he walked into a room, that you can feel the room tip toward him. he was arrogant. he was intimidating. the i have officers were very afraid of him. i call this a silverback pose.
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