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Flags of Our Fathers
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- On the cavern wall were markers that corresponded to the elevations of the sloping beaches.†
Chpt 1.
- Ira H. Hayes And a somewhat later correspondence revealed an earnestness that is especially touching, given the demons that Ira battled later in his life: Today, Sunday, this morning me and another fellow went to church and heard a good sermon.†
Chpt 4.
- Harlon's sweetheart, Catherine Pierce, corresponded with him throughout the war.†
Chpt 4.
- Correspondent Sherrod worried that America did not have the stomach for the sacrifices the Marines would have to make to conquer the Pacific.†
Chpt 4.
- As Easy Company with their khaki shirts neared their destiny, seventy civilian correspondents gathered in the steaming wardroom of the command ship Eldorado anchored off Iwo, for a final briefing.†
Chpt 6.
- As his words sank in among the correspondents he said proudly and quietly: "It's a tough proposition.†
Chpt 6.
- From the back row a correspondent asked, "When's the next boat to Pearl Harbor?"†
Chpt 6.
- Veteran combat correspondent Robert Sherrod, who had landed on Tarawa and who would also land on Iwo, felt differently.†
Chpt 6.
- One of the war correspondents aboard the ships, Robert Sherrod, watched the battle through binoculars.†
Chpt 7. *
- To the experienced correspondent Robert Sherrod, who thought he had seen all the worst that the Pacific campaign had to offer, it revealed nothing less than "a nightmare in hell."†
Chpt 8.
- As he was approaching Iwo Jima in an LCT in the company of Bill Hipple, a magazine correspondent, the boatswain told Rosenthal he had just heard on his radio that a patrol was climbing Suribachi.†
Chpt 11.
- As the war in Europe was thundering to an end, correspondents had migrated from that theater to the Pacific to record the growing conflict.†
Chpt 12.
- There, he was interviewed by a CBS radio correspondent.†
Chpt 12.
- On Saturday, February 24, the day after the flagraisings and the day before the photo appeared, correspondents continued to embellish the myth of the battle of Suribachi: SURIBACHI REACHED IN A FIERY BATTLE —— WAY TO VOLCANO'S BASE BURNED WITH FLAMETHROWERS PRIOR TO SCALING OF VOLCANO —— ASCENT MADE BY MARINES AS JAPANESE HURLED GRENADES AND POURED BULLETS ON THEM The boys of Easy Company would have howled at these gross exaggerations, but the Times copy just kept it up.†
Chpt 12.
- Some seventy war correspondents had accompanied the armada to the island; for the first, drama-soaked week, they had remained on the scene and sent hundreds of thousands of words back to their newspapers, magazines, and radio networks—not to mention countless photographs and newsreel images.†
Chpt 13.
- The terrain—rocky plateaus abutting on steep cliffs, shallow ravines; "like hell with the fire out" in the words of one correspondent—offered the usual absence of cover.†
Chpt 13.
- As he later recounted: "When I walked into press headquarters, a correspondent walked up to me.†
Chpt 13.
- Some of the correspondents listening to him assumed that he was talking not about the "gung-ho" photograph, but about the previous frame, the one that was now famous.†
Chpt 13.
- Keyes Beech, a Marine correspondent, was one of many journalists who saw a story in finding the flagraisers.†
Chpt 13. *
- Marine correspondent Keyes Beech's cursory investigation had identified only one flagraiser on the boat: Rene Gagnon.†
Chpt 15.
- Accompanying them was their chaperon: Keyes Beech, the Marine correspondent.†
Chpt 16.
- A local newspaper correspondent wrote that the "volleys of shots echoed and reechoed.†
Chpt 18.
- The Time correspondent spilled much useless ink wringing his hands over whether Rosenthal's chance shot had ruined this "big copper-colored kid," who as a youth ran "barefooted across the Gila River Indian Reservation."†
Chpt 18.
- If only the correspondent could have seen beyond his prejudices and preconceptions and listened to Ira as he described the root cause of his problem.†
Chpt 18.
Definitions:
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(1)
(correspond as in: corresponding time period) connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
(Two things are equivalent if they have the same or very similar value, purpose, or result.) -
(2)
(correspond as in: corresponding by email) communicate -- typically by writing letters or emailA corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.
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(3)
(correspondence as in: a correspondence course) done from afarFor example, a corresponding member or a correspondence course.
This sense of corresponding arose because people who lived in distant cities and could not be present for meetings, could communicate by sending written communications. -
(4)
(correspondent as in: foreign correspondent of the paper) a reporter or other representative -- typically from a foreign country or with a particular expertise
- (5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)