[simpson96]

And may I recommend the book "Flags Of Our Fathers", to anyone who has not read it.

Would that it were required reading for the young generation.

[A_Former_Democrat]

There is no way that people immigrating here could ever understand what it is like to truly be an American. Our fathers and grandfathers and great grandfathers fought in two World Wars with heroism beyond description.

[Verginius Rufus]

Ironically, the book Flags of our Fathers was written by someone who believed that his father was one of the 6 men in Joe Rosenthal's photo...but the Marine Corps later determined that Bradley was not one of those in the photo.

My father was in the Sixth Marine Division and saw combat on Guam and Okinawa, but not on Iwo Jima. I once watched Sands of Iwo Jima with him--he thought it was pretty realistic.

[Verginius Rufus]

Ironically, the book Flags of our Fathers was written by someone who believed that his father was one of the 6 men in Joe Rosenthal's photo...but the Marine Corps later determined that Bradley was not one of those in the photo.

My father was in the Sixth Marine Division and saw combat on Guam and Okinawa, but not on Iwo Jima. I once watched Sands of Iwo Jima with him--he thought it was pretty realistic.