Tonight I'm blogging from the great state of Texas.  Saturday I had the privilege of attending a recreation of the battle for Iwo Jima on a steep hill outside of Fredericksburg.  Present for this 60 year commemoration was Oliver North and historian Richard Frank, who narrated the event over loudspeakers as it unfolded on the field and hill in front of us.  The combatants included reenactors from the U.S., Australia, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan.


The loud and intense program involved authentic vehicles and tanks, artillery, flamethrowers, and professional pyrotechnics.



But the real stars of the event were our WWII veterans, such as this man, Warren E. Miller, who escaped the sinking U.S.S. Utah at Pearl Harbor.  58 of his shipmates did not.  He stands next to his plaque (bottom left) on the Memorial Wall at the National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg.



I'll have more pictures from the event up shortly.

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