I Am Interested In Ww1 and Ww2

Today is the 75th anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofSF463vpCQ]

Threescore and fifteen years ago,

On Iwo Jima's scoriac stones

Many a young man bled and died

For country, God or emperor.

Now looking at this desolate isle

Today, but little more remains

Than mostly unkempt monuments

And dreadful artifacts of war,

Rusting where they fell, so long ago.

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therighttothink50 · 56-60, M

Another good war film , WW1 movie with the great James Cagney.

[youtube=https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LpR1s6JVeb0]

Thinkerbell · 41-45, F

@therighttothink50

The Fighting 69th was justly famous, perhaps most of all for its actions in the American Civil War.

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mR6HV4KHRDY]

But whoever wrote JFK's speech for him got the battle to which he refers hopelessly wrong.

Fredericksburg is in Virginia, not Maryland, and the battle was fought on December 13, 1862, not September.

It was the battle of Antietam (which is in Maryland) that was fought in September. There is a city in Maryland named Frederick, but no significant battle was fought there.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@therighttothink50 is the Fighting 69 a National Guard unit in NYC?