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AIRBORNE ALL THE WAY Monday, February 23, 2009
Well, today is the 64th anniversary of the famous flag raising incident on Mt. Suribachi, on the small little island of Iwo Jima that took the US Marines thirty six days to conquer.
You know, that famous little incident on the poster of Flags of our Fathers, for those of you who have watched the movie.
Six flagraisers in total. John Bradley, Rene Gangon, Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, Michael Strank. The first three made it. The others did not. Rene and Ira drank themselves to death around twenty years afterwards.
Poor chaps.
Conducted our science experiment today. At least it wasn't a bloody failure like we expected it to be. Took a whole one and a half hours to complete, unfortunately. What with blocking out the light from the torch, adjusting the metal, redoing the entire thing because of a change in set up...still we ended at three thirty. And we got the job done. Amazing. I'm now writing the report.
Le Yan went made because the copper sheet cost a whopping fourteen dollars. She was treating it like her baby or something. "My precious..."I forgot which movie that line came from. Lord of the Rings? Don't know. Never watched that movie. Not my type.
And for your information, Joy, a blog that hasn't been touched for a week is not a dead blog. You want an example of a dead blog? Go look at our class blog. (Hint hint.)
~Today in History~
1945: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize and become the model for the national USMC War Memorial.
~Quote of the Day~
This means a Marine Corps for another five hundred years.
-James Forrestal, some hotshot in the Navy, to Holland Smith, commander of the US Marine troops on the Island. Or something like that. I'm sorry, my pacific war history isn't very good.
You know, that famous little incident on the poster of Flags of our Fathers, for those of you who have watched the movie.
Six flagraisers in total. John Bradley, Rene Gangon, Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, Michael Strank. The first three made it. The others did not. Rene and Ira drank themselves to death around twenty years afterwards.
Poor chaps.
Conducted our science experiment today. At least it wasn't a bloody failure like we expected it to be. Took a whole one and a half hours to complete, unfortunately. What with blocking out the light from the torch, adjusting the metal, redoing the entire thing because of a change in set up...still we ended at three thirty. And we got the job done. Amazing. I'm now writing the report.
Le Yan went made because the copper sheet cost a whopping fourteen dollars. She was treating it like her baby or something. "My precious..."I forgot which movie that line came from. Lord of the Rings? Don't know. Never watched that movie. Not my type.
And for your information, Joy, a blog that hasn't been touched for a week is not a dead blog. You want an example of a dead blog? Go look at our class blog. (Hint hint.)
~Today in History~
1945: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag. The photo would later win a Pulitzer Prize and become the model for the national USMC War Memorial.
~Quote of the Day~
This means a Marine Corps for another five hundred years.
-James Forrestal, some hotshot in the Navy, to Holland Smith, commander of the US Marine troops on the Island. Or something like that. I'm sorry, my pacific war history isn't very good.
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