screaming and yelling and that kind of stuff. and i really thought everybody had lost their mind there for a second. i couldn t figure out what was going on. and then i caught on to what was going on because they were looking at mt. suribachi. i look and there s old glory up on top of mt. suribachi. i jumped up and started doing the same dumb thing they were doing. firing a weapon in the air and yelling and screaming. i m carrying a weapon. i jumped up and started firing in the air and yelling and screaming like everybody else. i wondered houma reasons we lost at that particular moment when we saw old glory up on top of mt. suribachi. but it changed the whole attitude of the whole thing. it absolutely did something to us. from the exhibit space inside the national museum of the marine corps in quantico, virginia, we re joined now by marine corps history chief edward nevgloski and museum curator owen conner. on the eve of the 75th anniversary of the battle of iwo jima, expla
he spent keeping himself on tainted and logging and other kinds of things. when you look at the transition from leon panetta and asking what kind of person you would have in their, eventually to deal with what will be a shrinking defense budget, i think chuck hagel seemed a very obvious choice. i basically thought that is where the president was going to go early on. host: this is a the news from the new york times . the war and against hagel and republicans called him in the piecer based on what he said in iraq. he voted for the war but turned against it. easer sings very strong. guest: he voted for it and then had criticism of how it was being carried out. when you talk about the secretary defense, the most important thing that happened during the war is the surge. he voted against the surge. he called the worst mistake since vietnam. we know in terms of the military, strategy and the search worked. it was very successful. when you re talking about putting somebody in the
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