Iwo Jima and WWII Marine Heroes

<![CDATA[Eighty years ago today, on Feb. 23, 1945, a half dozen Marines declared U.S. control of Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima by raising the American flag, a moment captured in one of the most iconic photographs in American history. Many were the outstanding heroes of Iwo Jima, for, as Adm. Chester Nimitz said of the U.S. Marines fighting there, “uncommon valor was a common virtue.”]]>