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...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...
DIED. RICHARD JAECKEL, 70, movie tough guy; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. A real-life Marine during World War II, Jaeckel took on the Japanese in the Sands of Iwo Jima. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1971 for his portrayal of a logger in Sometimes a Great Notion...
...current World War II icon, the Iwo Jima memorial, won't do. For all its majesty, it remains a memorial not to World War II but to one branch of the U.S. military. Its official name, in fact, is the Marine Corps Memorial...
...deeply his bailout from a burning Avenger torpedo bomber in World War II had shaped him. He was only three months beyond his teens when ground fire hit his plane as he thundered in with four 500-lb. bombs to drop on a radio tower and facilities on Chichi Jima, a volcanic island held by the Japanese. He followed the book, completed his drop and then told his two crewmen, Ted White and Jack Delaney, to bail out. He turned the plane to lessen wind on their hatch, looked for them but could not see them in the plane...
...what I say." He doesn't fake well; Dole has consistently been reluctant to use a TelePrompTer, which lets him pretend to riff when he's actually reading a speech. Nor will he take advantage of symbolism that he finds sacred, like posing for campaign shots at the Iwo Jima Memorial. He won't even wear casual clothes when a photo op requires it. "This is serious business," he told his media adviser on a cold winter morning in Iowa, refusing to wear a checked work shirt. "People are choosing a President." Dole is a guy who doesn't like...