Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SAVE FACE In ads for Saving Private Ryan, DreamWorks describes the events of June 6, 1944, as "...the last great invasion of the last great war." Couldn't the studio afford research? The Iwo Jima invasion took place nine months later...
...American flag is raised on Iwo Jima...
...quintessential image of World War II was the flag raising at Iwo Jima. For Vietnam, it was a helicopter scrambling off the U.S. embassy roof in Saigon. Apocalypse Then: the chaotic endgame of the Vietnam War fatally charged the atmosphere of the 1970s, a decade in which America discovered limits to its power and wealth. For a nation long accustomed to expansion--material, geographic and psychological--this was something new and unwelcome. Only the Great Depression--an apt name--had presented a comparable challenge to national optimism, and that was followed by the reassuring wartime victory and postwar boom...
DIED. YEVGENI KHALDEI, 80, World War II photographer who pointedly snapped Russia's famous answer to America's iconic image of the flag raising on Iwo Jima: a lone soldier waving the Soviet standard over a devastated Berlin; in Moscow...
...Meanwhile, there's another battle of Iwo Jima in the offing. The Air Force will tomorrow dedicate a site for a proposed monument to their boys' part in the war ? to be built right next to the current Iwo Jima memorial. The Marines are understandably upset, and are trying to block construction...