Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...celebrate the 40th anniversary of the end of World War II, planeloads of graying and thickening Americans are suddenly arriving in strange lands and looking around them with half-remembering wonderment at half-forgotten places with names like Torgau, Remagen, Iwo Jima. Torgau is the German town where U.S. and Soviet forces linked up along the Elbe River on April 25, 1945. The recent Soviet shooting of an American officer in East Germany has cast a pall on the anniversary celebration. The U.S. military now says that it would be inappropriate to attend, but Robert Swan, an organizer...
...this year, at least, the most visible departures and homecomings have had a U.S. locus, the stretch of North Carolina that includes the Marines' Camp Lejeune and the Army's Fort Bragg. This month, 2,000 troops returned from Grenada, and 1,800 Marines, some aboard the Iwo Jima, came back from Lebanon. They stepped into a familiar dream. Bands played. Infants were tweaked. Couples swung M-16s out of the way and hugged. The troops were home. They had served, and served well...
...Grenada was not, like Cuba or Nicaragua, a regional power that could project real force against its neighbors (though it would still be valuable to a great power as a staging point; in this respect it resembled, if anything, other useful dots on the map like Iwo Jima in 1945 or Diego Garcia today). And the only parallel to Afghanistan is that there too a superpower threw out a bloody and brutal dictatorship. In Afghanistan, however, the Soviets installed an equally bloody and brutal substitute, and have spent the past four years killing Afghans to keep it in power...
...Colonel Timothy Geraghty, commander of the Marines in Beirut, Kelley watched silently as two more bodies were dragged out of the ruins. The next day, under a tight cloak of secrecy, Bush flew on Air Force Two from Washington to Cyprus, where he boarded a helicopter for the Iwo Jima. His arrival in Beirut was delayed for more than an hour when Marine positions east of the airport came under mortar attack from a Druze stronghold in the hills above. The Marines returned the fire, and the shelling died...
Although some of the wounded were helicoptered to the Iwo Jima off the coast of Lebanon and treated in the ship's operating rooms, most were flown directly to U.S. military hospitals in West Germany and Italy or to a British Royal Air Force hospital on Cyprus.* The most seriously injured were sent to West Germany. When word of the explosion was flashed to the U.S. Air Force Hospital at Wiesbaden, where the U.S. hostages in Iran were first treated after their release in 1981, a trio of American doctors immediately flew to Beirut to accompany the victims back...