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Three survivors from the Suribachi event--John (Doc) Bradley (Ryan Phillippe), Rene Gagnon (Jesse Bradford) and Ira Hayes (Adam Beach)--are brought home to receive a nation's thanks and to charm the citizens into buying more war bonds. In a packed arena the three re-enact the raising on an imitation Iwo Jima; at a banquet they are served an iced dessert in the shape of the photo. Uncomfortable with praise they never asked for, guilt ridden that they are home and their buddies fighting and dying abroad, they know that the Iwo Jima image is simply an inspirational...
Eastwood choreographs his battle scenes with a brutal vividness that matches the most cauterizing moments of Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down. A young man tries to keep his guts from spilling through the huge wound in his belly. On the beach, a severed head stares unseeing at the sky. More than one good soldier is mowed down by friendly fire. Staying alive was a matter of the most capricious luck. On the Japanese side, some soldiers wanted to control their own awful destiny: they blew themselves up with hand grenades...
...local square, as we stood in a pre-iftar [the Ramadan evening meal] line for halim, and asked her if the was actually observant, or just happened to like the seasonal wheat and turkey stew. "Oh, I adore fasting!" she said, as though professing to love truffles or the beach...
...American diplomats had with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. While Ahmadinejad is a bit more forthright than Hitler about his disdain for Jews, declaring that Israel should be "wiped away" and the Holocaust is a "myth," Neville Chamberlain would have probably found him trustworthy. Fred S. Carr Jr. Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. The West may depict Ahmadinejad as dangerous and anti-Semitic, but his interview showed rather a different side. His replies were fairly rational, and you cannot fault him for being an extremist. He may have a very conservative Islamic side, but many Republicans have a conservative Christian side...
...Virginia Beach...