at this moment in time, thousands of marines were lying emen their life on the line to capture a veryground. . at we now know as iwo jima most of us who were involved wonder why so many marines were there to capture this very small piece of rock. we didn't know its significance at the time. i'm sure that those in charge did because of the future planning that they had for the slands but we in the lower ranks had no concept of what the purpose really was to take that very we had just finished the august, takingnd the island of guam back from the japanese, who had taken it from us in 1942. from oneout 19 miles coastline to another. this one, it was five miles. from one end of the island to the other. knew, we hadg we to win. >> hear more from world war ii 6:00an woody williams at p.m. here on american history tv. >> next on lectures in history. longwood university president w. taylor reverley iv and political science professor emeritus william harbour teach a class about the presidencies of bill clinton and george w. bush, exploring the major events and policies during their 10 years --

the second question is about the from es that were fired emen by the iranian-backed houthis. good news is, it looks like the is ge done by everyone else minor but none ttheless, there have been a lot of work to reduce conflict, to take down levels of violence that were there and we had some success. thataudis had been leading effort, and it broke down that day. have now responded and they can get on the right path. we hope we can find a path forward with the u.n. security ouncil resolution in yemen to find a path to peace there. interestbe in the best of every participant in the region. sadly, it appears the iranians don't share our vision for peace yemen and in saudi arabia. and lastly, you asked a question disinformation and the oment here with the covid-19 challenge. you know, i see it every day. the data ing i read set from across the world. not only the tragedy that's place here, we've had a state department official pass this virus, ult of one of our team members. e now have 3,000 americans who've been killed. it's tragic. my prayers go out to every american and every a

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