Iwo Jima Quotes

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

Hell these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima. Baghdad ain't shit.

Did my father's generation hit the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima so their children would have to pee in a cup to hold a job in America?

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

In 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' there were times when I told Eastwood, 'This is just not believable.'

See you on the other side, kid.

The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances.

Victory was never in doubt. Only the cost was.

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.

Off they go on this sort of camping trip to Iwo Jima, where they're taken around and shown where all the battles took place. It's very moving. Disgusting little island, though. Still an active volcano. Stinks of sulfur. There are dead Japanese everywhere under that island. It's icky. But I knew I would never have another chance to go, so I took the job.