Morning Awesome

Posted on 02/23/2008 at 9:43 am by Bob Cesca

AP — On Feb. 23, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima captured Mount Suribachi, where they raised the American flag.

If you haven’t seen Spielberg & Eastwood’s Letters From Iwo Jima… see it today.

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  • peonyharp

    Fantastic film, yes!Arigatou gozaimasu.(Confession: my daughter is gaining fluency in Japanese, I only know a few phrases).

  • Nanotyrannus

    It was a good film and now you’ve made me get out all my WWII Navy books.

  • ceabaird

    Sooooo… in a fit of poor sportsmanship, the Japanese government renamed “Iwo Jima” to “Iwo Tou” soon after the movies came out in Japan last year.Because they could, and because they’d like to forget any kind of “unfortunate events.”

  • ceabaird

    Unfortunately, the Japanese government’s reaction to the world-wide success of these movies was to rename “Iwo Jima” to “Iwo Tou” — in an effort to hide this bit of “inconvenient history.”The kicker is that while there are Japanese Naval charts showing the name of the island to be “Iwo Jima” in Japanese AND English — from the early 1900′s — the name change is supported by no other documents and goes against the wishes of even Japanese WW2 veterans.