"This will be the bloodiest fight in Marine Corps history. We'll catch seven kinds of hell on the beaches, and that will be just the beginning. The fighting will be fierce, and the casualties will be awful, but my Marines will take the damned island." (concerning the upcoming attack on Iwo Jima)
Lieutenant General Holland M. "Howlin' Mad" Smith, USMC
"Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner." (In reference to the Battle of Iwo Jima)
Major General Graves B. Erskine, USMC
"The battle of Iwo Jima has been won. Among the Americans who served on Iwo, uncommon valor was a common virtue."
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, USN
To all Americans, I wish you a happy Fourth of July. May you enjoy this day and never forget the cost this day and every other as a free American required and may yet require.
I will finish up this post with a quote from the best politician ever produced in that sceptered isle of Great Britain:
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.” --Winston Churchill
Cheers, Þórgrímr
_________________ Benno the Mad Wrote:
man, you gotta realise that thor and bos fell out of the patriot tree (like the ugly tree, but instills patriotism instead of ugly) and hit every branch on the way down.
"Gone now, dispersed by the brutal destruction of this one day, was the belief that the Darkman and his army of the dead were so superior as to be invincible. By attempting to destroy the morale of the Marines, the Darkman had restored it to full vigor. Dia De La Muerto had failed in its objectives."
The Gunny: Stand of the 300
Si vis pacem, para bellum
If you want peace, prepare for war
Gunny's color #FF2400
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