thewhitestofgrain
“The legionary spirit is that fire of one who will choose the hardest road, who will fight to the death even when all is already lost.”
- Julius Evola
"Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things."
G.K. Chesterton
After 36 days of brutal fighting, the battle for Iwo Jima came to an end on March 26, 1945. In some of the bloodiest fighting of World War II, it's believed that all but 200 of the 21,000 Japanese forces on the island were killed, and nearly 7,000 Marines lost their lives during the battle.
Pictured above: A U.S. Navy Chaplain performs the Last Rites for a fallen Marine as four of his comrades hold an outstretched American flag over his gave on Iwo Jima.
