Monthly Archives: February 2020

            Seventy-five years ago, one of the most famous photos in American history was taken atop Mount Surabachi on the island of Iwo Jima, some 750 miles east of Japan. Few today understand the cost involved in gaining the top of that mountain. But try to imagine yourself a marine, fighting to take that island from the Japanese. It is February 19, 1945. You are aboard a landing craft heading ashore for the volcanic island of Iwo Jima. The roar…..

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