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...grenades, had paid the price to take Iwo Jima: 4,189 dead, 441 missing, 15,308 wounded-total casualties of 19,938. This was as high as Tarawa and Saipan combined, higher than the number of Union casualties in any of the bloody battles of the Civil War except Gettysburg...
...flag-raising on Corregidor, the renewed air blows at Tokyo, and the battering push toward the plain of Cologne (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS). But Iwo held top place in the minds and hearts of Americans. Henceforth, Iwo would be a place name in U.S. history to rank with Valley Forge, Gettysburg and Tarawa. Few in this generation would ever forget Iwo's shifting black sands, or the mind's images of charging marines, or the sculptured picture of Old Glory rising atop Mount Suribachi...
...Gettysburg to Appomattox, by Douglas Southall Freeman, is the third & final volume of Lee's Lieutenants. Its portraits of the able, good-natured men who contributed to Lee's greatness are masterly. Its clear, detailed battle accounts read like chapters of good novels...
Lutheran Theological Seminary Gettysburg...
Sirs: At the rate the American people are descending into utter moral and mental degradation, under the New Deal, I wouldn't be surprised to see Roosevelt's speech to the teamsters placed side by side with the Gettysburg Address in our history books. Two comments I heard on it rate notice, I think. Said a lady, "I thought I was listening to the Great Gildersleeve running for the office of Mayor of Summerfield." Said a bewildered man: "I didn't know we had a canine vote...