No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.
Our present control of the sea is so absolute that it is sometimes taken for granted.
God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.
Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.
When you're in command, command.
They fought together as brothers in arms; they died together and now they sleep side by side. To them we have a solemn obligation.