Sands of Iwo Jima - Count Your Toes - John Wayne

John Wayne as US Marine Corps sergeant John Stryker. The scene in which he tells young Marines under fire on Iwo Jima that he will do the masterminding and if they are nervous to "count your toes."

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[philochs]

I saw this movie as a very little kid on tv. It was the first war movie that I remember seeing. It had a big impact on me. This movie kicks ass!

[rambler333]

The fact that you say you were in VN for a year doesn't make you a hero in my book. What did you do in VN, clean latrines?

[CoyKiyote]

John Wayne spent more time in a dressing room getting make-up on than a drag queen!

[MaryWaterton]

@Helotes420 - You filthy feces eating fags are disgrace to the military. If John Wayne were still alive he would shoot every arse licking one of you and then he would kick down the doors of the Pentagon and beat every fag loving general with his bear fists.

[1animalcontrol]

That look he have at 0:10 just froze that guy's balls off!

[STP43FAN1]

@TheM4A1Clan It's to say that the German Army was a force of conquest and genocide and those who served in it were the knights of the Reich. It means they were the enemy.

What is so wrong with accepting that they were the enemy? Enough with moral equivalency - it does not exist in the real world and never has.

[TheM4A1Clan]

@STP43FAN1 Is that to say that every single German during WWII was an anti Semitic Nazi? And that no one opposed the fascist government at all?

[STP43FAN1]

@TheM4A1Clan Yeah, sure. "Those damned Jews, they won't even let people sleep," is a recorded remark from a German civilian about the trains.

No more moral equivalency. They were the Axis, they do not warrant any sympathetic portrayal.

[TheM4A1Clan]

@STP43FAN1 Nearly every German male from 18 to 40 was drafted into the military during WWII. It was not as if every soldier was a Nazi who hated the Jews and every other race besides his own, most were forced into service and fought for a country whose atrocities they weren't aware of.

[STP43FAN1]

@SAM871wkh Don't give me this moral equivalency nonsense. Not every soldier in WWII had a face or a story, certainly not the knights of totalitarian conquest that were the Axis. They were the ones responsible for the atrocities, not us. Trying to create sympathy for the Japanese side in the war is wrong.

[NoobSnoopy]

''count your toes''

''sir i step on a mine''

''count your fingers''

''sir i countered angry jap whit the katana''

''count to ten''

''YES SIR!''

[STP43FAN1]

@SAM871wkh Eastwood fails because the Japanese soldiers in WWII were NOT men with a face or a story, they were the knights of a totalitarian killing machine that didn't just kill those in front of them, they massacred their own, most graphically shown during the Marianas campaign and the infamous beachside slaughter of civilians by a Jap sniper who'd been trading shots with Marines and then turned and killed a couple and tried to kill their children and happily walked out to get shot dead