Wednesday, March 28, 2007

 

Rare as Hen's Teeth



Japanese veterans from the Battle of Iwo Jima commemorate the 62nd anniversary of the Battle at Iwo Jima, Japan, Feb. 14, 2007. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Lindsay Elaine Beaulieu).

Sixty-two years ago there were at most 2,000 of these guys, many of them wounded, out of the 22,000 defenders against the first American assault on Japan proper. Are we really down to five?


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