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Iwo Jima tribute


March 10, 2010

Feb. 23 marked the 65th anniversary of the flag-raising at Iwo Jima. Coincidently, Pilot Butte (500 ft.) is an almost exact replica of Mt. Suribachi (550 ft.), and there were 22,000 Japanese soldiers inside the mount. It took one month and cost 7,000 Marines their lives to take that “cruddy....

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