Pfc. Frederick Rickard's death on Iwo Jima was the family's second tragedy in four months. His brother died in a Christmas ...

Iwo Jima has always been beautiful ... and we would sometimes pass the Marine Corps War Memorial, Rosenthal’s photo cast as a bronze statue. My father would go quiet. One hand stayed on the ...

But if one had to nominate a particular group of WWII American fighting men for the title of “Greatest of the Greatest Generation,” then the troops who fought at Iwo Jima certainly have to be ...

Flores is one of the many marines at the Legacy of Liberty WWII Memorial Park in honor of the raising of the flag. The park is a replica of the Iwo Jima monument. "Even after all these years ...

During the onset of the Iwo Jima invasion on Feb. 19 ... on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, a memorial statue of him acts as a constant tribute to his valor. Additionally, the base's main ...

these veterans carefully navigated their way to the World War II Memorial for a brief ceremony. Men who witnessed one of the toughest fights in American history: the Battle of Iwo Jima.

With very few living members of the greatest generation left to call upon, veterans in Boston were prepared to turn to surviving family to commemorate the Battle of Iwo Jima one last time ...