[Stellan Bojerud (RIP)]

Thank you Bill!

Yes I have read and enjoyed "American Caesar" and also MacArthurs memoires.

I earlier quoted wrong. I have corrected it in the post above. It was five hundred - not three hundred - years.

The man who said this was Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal.

I got interested in Iwo Jima during my very short tour with USMC University in Quantico. I was staying in Liversedge quarters. So I had to learn who Harry "the Horse" Liversedge was and that brought me to the 28th Marines and Iwo Jima.

Picture: The Scandinavian officers group leaving USMC University. Myself standing far right.