A Quote by Chester W. Nimitz

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

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Among Common Fought Iwo Jima Men Uncommon Valor Virtue

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Chester W. Nimitz
American - Military man
February 24, 1885 - February 20, 1966

By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans who served on Iwo Island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

Uncommon valor was a common virtue.

Chester W. Nimitz

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

Chester W. Nimitz

In 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' there were times when I told Eastwood, 'This is just not believable.'

Ken Watanabe

The only black battalion on Iwo Jima was a small munitions supply unit that came to the beach.

Clint Eastwood

I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

J. B. Smoove

My father was one of the first six guys ashore on Iwo Jima. He's 86 years old now, and every single night of his life, he has nightmares, and he wakes yelling.

Jeff Lindsay

Common sense has become an uncommon virtue.

Amit Abraham

With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.

Ken Watanabe

I talked on my blog recently about "uncommon sense." Common sense is called "common" because it reflects cultural consensus. It's common sense to get a good job and save for retirement. But I think we all also have an "uncommon sense," an individual voice that tells us what we're meant to do.

Theodora Goss

I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

Karl Marlantes

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Herbert Hoover

In college, I actually did some work on a documentary project talking to Vietnam vets about the images of war and how it changed. When they grew up, it was like 'Sands of Iwo Jima' and there was this, you know - after Vietnam, there was a whole different way of looking at war.

Ron Livingston

The only thing you will get from common sense, is a common life. Be uncommon and have uncommon sense.

Bryant H. McGill

Success is uncommon, not to be found by the common man. I'm looking for uncommon people.

Cal Stoll

What is called common sense is excellent in its department, and as invaluable as the virtue of conformity in the army and navy,--for there must be subordination,--but uncommon sense, that sense which is common only to the wisest, is as much more excellent as it is more rare.

Henry David Thoreau

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