It also embedded black sand from the volcanic island deep in his body. The sand of Iwo Jima continued to flake out of his skin like bits of black pepper for the rest of his long life, said his ...

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An estimated 22,000 Japanese soldiers were killed. And in his memorabilia-filled home that includes a jar half-filled with Iwo Jima beach sand, he talked about being 100. "I'm in good health.

The United Airlines charter flight, organized by the Iwo Jima Association of America and ... black volcanic sand and reflecting on what had happened there. “I feel like I have been given a ...

Tristian also brought back sand from the beaches of Iwo Jima which he plans to give to the veterans in his life.

Iwo Jima, for one, will take a lot of patient cultivation. After 23 years, it still remains a desolate battlefield, where hulks of landing craft and shell casings jut from the black volcanic sand.

Iwo Jima was only 750 miles from mainland Japan ... We had trained on hard sand. I had a bad feeling about this island. It was very dark and foreboding. The Japanese were more in the island ...