Iwo Jima Quotes

• A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

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  Maya Angelou

  Country   Fighting   Son  

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.210, Random House

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• No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

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  Chester W. Nimitz

  War   Iwo Jima   Islands  

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• I don't know anything about the history of music.

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  Sia Furler

  Iwo Jima   History Of Music   Knows  

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

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  Chester W. Nimitz

  Country   Military   Marine  

  Chester W. Nimitz's statement after the Battle of Iwo Jima, circa March - May 1945.

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• The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years.

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  James Forrestal

  Military   War   Mean  

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• See you on the other side, kid.

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  Ashton Kutcher

  Kids   Iwo Jima   Sides  

  Ashton Kutcher‏ @aplusk, twitter.com. December 20, 2009.

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• The battle of Iwo Island has been won. The United States Marines by their individual and collective courage have conquered a base which is as necessary to us in our continuing forward movement toward final victory as it was vital to the enemy in staving off ultimate defeat.

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  Chester W. Nimitz

  War   Marine   Islands  

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• Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.

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  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs   Moving   Taken  

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

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  Chester W. Nimitz

  Military   War   Marine  

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• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

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  Karl Marlantes

  Military   Kids   Thinking  

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• I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

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  J. B. Smoove

  Iwo Jima   People   Black  

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