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Battle of Iwo Jima
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    In 1957, Jim and the other football boys wore Marine uniforms and pretended to be raising the flag on Iwo Jima.†  (source)
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    An old Sioux vet who said he was at Iwo Jima with Ira Hayes passed me a bagged flask of whiskey underneath the sign please don't drink here, this is YOUR lobby.†  (source)
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    Because of my father's legendary heroism on Iwo Jima, I did not want to be a grunt.†  (source)
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    I got reassigned to a crew ship and hauled marines to Iwo Jima the next spring.†  (source)
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    And it was for this reason that the battle of Iwo Jima had been ordered.†  (source)
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    These Indians got treated the same as anyone: Wake Island, Iwo Jima.†  (source)
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    The first day of the Battle of Iwo Jima had come to an end.†  (source)
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    She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima.†  (source)
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    Many of the young Marines, in their giddiness, assumed that the battle of Iwo Jima was over.†  (source)
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    Even when he was horribly wounded—he lost most of one of his legs on Iwo Jima—he maintained a cheerfulness I could only describe as exalted, writing me letters from his hospital bed that bubbled with a mixture of joie de vivre and Swiftian cor rosiveness and energy.†  (source)
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    "The subject," for him, could never merely be the battle of Iwo Jima.†  (source)
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    I'm sure your friends in the movie business will be happy to know I'm not planning on making them remake The Sands of Iwo Jima word for word, line by line and motion by motion.†  (source)
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    The Battle of Iwo Jima is a historical fact.†  (source)
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