75th Anniversary of The Battle of Iwo Jima

When I was a small-town kid, I had a neighbor that had served in the WWII Marine Corps and fought at Iwo Jima. He never told his stories to us kids, so I never learned what he had been through in that battle until after I joined the Corps and had time to study it. There were still three-war Marines around then, so I got to absorb some of it from them. Later, when I was working as a civilian at the Washington Navy Yard, I worked at the Dept of the Navy Library transcribing documents (for them to put on their web site) in return for certain privileges (transcribing material from the rare book room - stuff like that). One document was a memoir by a Navy nurse who flew into Iwo (after an airfield was captured) while the battle was still going on to medevac the severely wounded. What she had to say about the wounded and what they (and she) went through was very graphic and inspiring.