60th Anniversary of Iwo Jima

Today is a landmark day---six decades since the Battle of Iwo Jima.



As an avid student of military history, I am often awed by the magnitude of what soldiers faced and accomplished. I frankly wonder if, faced with the same daunting challenges, I would have been able to accomplish what these men did.

I don't wonder when it comes to Iwo Jima---there's no way I would have had the steel in my blood that the Marines had throughout that bloody battle.