Iwo Jima Quotes

• La batalla de la isla de Iwo ha sido ganada. Los Marines de los Estados Unidos, con su valor individual y colectivo, han conquistado una base que nos es tan necesaria para seguir avanzando hacia la victoria final como vital era para el enemigo para evitar la derrota definitiva.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Guerra, Marina, Islas

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• El izado de esa bandera en el Suribachi significa un Cuerpo de Marines para los próximos 500 años.

  James Forrestal

  Militar, Guerra, Media

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• Entre los hombres que lucharon en Iwo Jima, el valor fuera de lo común era una virtud común.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  Militar, Guerra, Marina

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• Con su victoria, la 3ª, 4ª y 5ª Divisiones de Marines y otras unidades del Quinto Cuerpo Anfibio han rendido cuentas a su país que sólo la historia podrá valorar en su justa medida. Entre los estadounidenses que sirvieron en la isla de Iwo, el valor fuera de lo común era una virtud común.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  País, Militar, Marina

  Declaración de Chester W. Nimitz tras la batalla de Iwo Jima, entre marzo y mayo de 1945.

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• No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

  Chester W. Nimitz

  War, Islands, World

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• Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Jobs, Moving, Taken

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, "Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there.

  Maya Angelou

  Country, Fighting, Son

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.210, Random House

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• See you on the other side, kid.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Kids, Sides

  Ashton Kutcher‏ @aplusk, twitter.com. December 20, 2009.

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• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  Karl Marlantes

  Militar, Niños, Pensamiento

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• No sé nada de historia de la música.

  Sia Furler

  History Of Music, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

  J. B. Smoove

  People, Black, Wish

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