Iwo Jima

The Marine Corps Beginnings On November 10,1775, the Continental Congress establishes the Marine Corps, the Continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia passed a resolution stating that “ two battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces with the fleet. The date regarded and celebrated as the date of the Marine Corps birthday November 10. Each year on this day around the world Marines toast the birthplace on the most significant date in Marine Corps history. It all started in a…

American diverging cultural frameworks, it is highly likely that an invasion alone would not have beget Japanese formal surrender. The root of the matter lies in the fact that American servicemen could not emotionally sustain more combat campaigns like Iwo Jima or, Okinawa and, the invasion into mainland Kyushu promised to be just as deadly. Taking in the full idiosyncrasies of the Pacific—American officials were not willing to risk any more lives in the Pacific meat…

players had brief time in the major leagues so they could not make a name for themselves. These men were put on the frontlines and served extensively. Gedeon died in a plane crash while flying a mission over France, O’ Neill died on the island of Iwo Jima while standing in a crater with one of his squad mates (Robert Weintraub). Ted Williams attempted to use his position in baseball to escape from serving. He fought the draft board saying he is the only supporter of his mother but, once the…

one of the last blows on October 23, 1944 when the Japanese sent a naval force to the Leyte Gulf in a last-chance effort which ended up backfiring, cutting off their main source of supply from the south and then leading to the losses of Okinawa and Iwo…

iconic photos of the American Civil War would not only directly affect how the war was viewed from the home front, but it would also inspire future combat photographers who would take their cameras to the trenches of Flanders, the black sands of Iwo Jima, the steaming jungles of Vietnam, and the deserts of…

Once upon a time, tattoo parlors were the domain of the docks, the back alleys of cities or down the block from a military base. Their proprietors were bikers, dockworkers and servicemen. But somewhere in the waning days of the 20th century, things changed and the tattoo became not only fashionable, but ubiquitous. You could say the tattoo managed to do something very few politicians ever hope to accomplish – transcend generational and culture lines. Today it seems you can’t watch a…

Slowly the corpses start coming and the room has gone silent. One by one in total ten American soldiers were honored that day. Their families lined up on the first three rows grief stricken. The families of past victims of Battle of the Bulge and Iwo Jima offer comfort. As a consequence the Sunday papers read, “America Mourns Again.” Meanwhile someone in the distance compares this day to the heartbreak America felt on December 7, 1941, Pearl…

Every country has its own genocide: Hitler has the Jews, Mussolini butchered his people; Russia has its soldiers; Japan slaughtered the Chinese; and the United States, murdered Native Americans. The U.S. government has tortured and brutally slaughtered millions of Native Americans throughout the centuries following the establishment of the United States Government. They have forced many Native Americans from their homelands and have relocated them to dry, desolate areas unwanted by the…

Face it, Art is Art To be considered an artist is debatable. If one can be considered an artist, and if their work should even be considered as art, is argued constantly, but the truth is, no one can define an artist as one solid definition. The exact definition of art is considered: a wide variety of possessions and effects a person can show, create or capture. So, when it comes to photography, it shouldn 't be questionable if the photos themselves are art or not. They should be, because of…

characters. To begin, of the two films Windtalkers is the one that strays the farthest from the trust. In fact, the only truly historically accurate portion of the movie is that the code talkers were real people who played an enormous role in battles like Iwo Jima and World War II. Other than this, the characters of Windtalkers, including Yahzee and Enders, were not even actual people. Similarly, the specific events and situations they were placed in were true. Perhaps the most significant…