five marines and one navery corman planted the flag in hiro shima in a bloody battle. 70,000 americansfought to wrest control of the island that was key to invading japan. in washington d.c. survivors and their families recalled the sacrifice. i came to understand the unflagging bonds of crourge and duty that bound my late father and aging band of brother. >> nurse had cleaned me up. i bled a lot but i was not seriously hurt . i couldn't find along with my brothers and asked the colonel if i can go back. we are not sending anybody back. ip said colonel mipe wife and son, i haven't seen for a year and a half . more than a year and a half. those femos up there on hiro shima my family. >> we would fight and take those positions and the next day we did the same thing all over again and that went on 28 days. i was wounded three times. >> and thape understand the duty and state of in equal measure. >> the war was a terrible thing and we lost a lot of people, and a lot of friends. it is it something that you never forgept . it is it in your mind all of the time. >> and off of the bloody water

a group of three came in, she said, with their corman. the captain was dead. he had been shot under one arm and out of the other. that corpsman could have used you. he had been applying pressure under the his captain's arms for a long time. didn't realize that guy bled out along time before we got him. he just sat there, the corpsman, staring into space. you wouldn't answer our questions or talk to anybody. that might be a good person for me to see, i said. is he still here? no, they took him back with them this morning. probably best, kicking the wooden floor of the tent looking at her flip-flop clad feet. another came in with him, a gunny, triple and beauty who lost one leg below the knee, one at the head and another below the elbow. he was amazing. she took a deep breath and exhales through pursed lips. things for getting tent for a while. the look on my face must have been stressed. i was running past him once trying to get some supplies and he said to me i felt horrible. i thought oh no, he needs more morphine and i have been so busy i missed it. i went o