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Just like their predecessors who fought at Iwo Jima in 1945, landed ashore at Inchon in 1950, and repelled the Viet Cong’s Tet Offensive in 1968, the American troops currently surging toward Baghdad represent the very best of their generation. Through their heroism, these soldiers are building upon a legacy that is unlike any other in the history of warfare. They are, as Sir Isaac Newton might have said, “standing on the shoulders of giants.” Those giants are the brave men and women who have worn a uniform and struggled...
...were at Camp Iwo Jima on our way to spend time with the Devil Docs, the military's nickname for a group of physicians who set up a groundbreaking approach to battlefield medical care called the Forward Resuscitative Surgical Suite. The idea is to provide real surgery at the front lines during the so-called golden hour, when proper treatment gives wounded soldiers the best chance of recovery...
...didn't occur to me that the missile flying over Camp Iwo Jima in the northern Kuwaiti desert might not be friendly. I'm a doctor, a medical correspondent, not a bang-bang journalist. But I noticed all the Marines around me were hitting the deck. Five seconds later, the alarm "Bunker! Bunker! Bunker!" blared over the P.A. system. Over the next 20 hours, I would share with 70 Marines and two CNN colleagues the same space and the same occupation: target...
...memories of an earlier, less controversial conflict. A few weeks ago, Bush paid a visit to the watery grave of his Avenger bomber, downed by ground fire after a run on a radio tower on the South Pacific island of Chichi-jima in 1944. The President's trip to Iwo Jima's tiny sister island was stimulated by author James Bradley (Flags of Our Fathers), who accompanied him. "I was trying to relive what went before," said Bush. "My crewmen, Ted White and John Delaney, were killed, and I lived. To this day I have felt a responsibility for their...
This one was almost a stealth mission, witnessed by only a few friends, Japanese officials and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Howard Baker, along with the island's residents and a CNN crew, which recorded the event for broadcast later this fall. Bush flew by private jet to Iwo Jima, first walking the black sand beach where Marines landed in 1945 and helping raise a flag on Mount Suribachi, where Marines raised the U.S. flag in the famous war picture. "I choked back a tear," he said. Then Bush boarded a Japanese helicopter and retraced the route of his mission...