Riverboat
07-22-2006, 11:55 PM
Here's a book I should have read when it first came out six years ago. I decided I needed to read something to put some perspecive in the musical I was involved in this summer - South Pacific.
Flags of Our Fathers (Bradley/Powers) tells the story of the six men who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi in the Battle of Iwo Jima. There is a lot of information about the Japanese and how the Bushido warrior ethic was hijacked by the militarists (think of Owl KKKayda), Marine history and training, and, of course, the story of the men in the world's most-reproduced photo of all time.
Thanks to Johnny Cash, I was already familiar with the Pima Indian Ira Hayes, but nothing of the rest. Of course, thousands of others were involved, but the book is a snapshot, if you will, of the kind of men who risked everything to defeat a well-entrenched enemy imbued with a fanatical death-cult ethic (again, think Owl KKKayda). May they rest in peace.
http://virgil.org/dswo/fs/japantour/shared/iwo-jima-flag.jpg
Flags of Our Fathers (Bradley/Powers) tells the story of the six men who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi in the Battle of Iwo Jima. There is a lot of information about the Japanese and how the Bushido warrior ethic was hijacked by the militarists (think of Owl KKKayda), Marine history and training, and, of course, the story of the men in the world's most-reproduced photo of all time.
Thanks to Johnny Cash, I was already familiar with the Pima Indian Ira Hayes, but nothing of the rest. Of course, thousands of others were involved, but the book is a snapshot, if you will, of the kind of men who risked everything to defeat a well-entrenched enemy imbued with a fanatical death-cult ethic (again, think Owl KKKayda). May they rest in peace.
http://virgil.org/dswo/fs/japantour/shared/iwo-jima-flag.jpg