Word: jima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half stripes on his sleeve. From there he had bounced 1) to OWI, as domestic news director; 2) to the Marines, as a private; 3) to combat in the Pacific (Bougainville, Guadalcanal, Guam) as a lieutenant; 4) back to the Navy, as a commander; 5) to Iwo Jima and Okinawa, as a press-relations handyman...
...gather about them in the papers and your magazine, seems to more interested in finding a central recreation spot than in mending the world's problems. . . . Why not set up a Quonset hut for them with hard chairs and with windows overlooking one of the cemeteries of Iwo Jima? Maybe they'd forget their country clubs and get down to business...
...parents of Lieutenant Ben Toland [TIME, Feb. 11], whose death on Iwo Jima seems a heartbreaking waste of fine human material, I would like to say this: their son may have accomplished more for his country, and for the good life, in the simple will which that death has made public, than might have been achieved in a lifetime of service...
Headed for Iwo Jima and all that he knew it would mean, Marine Lieut. Toland sent a solemn charge home: "Take care of and nurture what we're fighting for!" Then he scribbled a will...
...occasion, he played his 35th new tune, a fox trot called G.I. Wish ("G.I. . . . wish that I were free to roam, G.I. wish that I were home"). It had the same kind of whine, the same kind of maudlin lyrics that put his Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima and Smoke on the Water among the nation's top-selling folk records last year...