 We are former enemies and now we're friends. The transition from being enemies to being friends has taken time for some, but the widow of Lieutenant General Korovayashi commanded the forces here when we landed, expressed it very succinctly for us in 1995, and she said, former enemies now friends, and together we must not let this type of warfare happen again. Just recently General Snowden read an article out of my book, which is very significant of what I'm going to do when I go to Iwo Jima, the island. I am going to make an attempt to honor the Japanese and shake their hand. Up until then when he read that article in my book, I was very upset about even attempting to do anything like that. I came in 2010 for the 65th anniversary, but this is the first time, maybe the last time, that I'll be on Iwo Jima. It's a long trip, I'm 91 years old, I don't know how much time I have left, but it's just, it's a day of memories for me, great memories and sad memories. I have, in 1988, my youngest son married the daughter of a Japanese kamikaze pilot, which took me from hatred to love a family, I have three Japanese grandchildren. I'd like their contemporaries to know that my grandchildren's grandparents served their countries with honor, no matter what we were learned about the Japanese or what they learned about us, that war is an atrocity, that evil has to be wiped out. We are not what we believe, we are all human beings, exactly the same. And there's evil in the world today and we have to fight that evil to make sure that there's freedom for free-loving people in our world. You guys, the Marines, the Navy, the Air Force, are the ones with that responsibility and I know you're fulfilling well. I'm PFC James Skitter, August 28, 1942, November 9, 1945, I'm a Purple Heart veteran, got wounded on Guam, and thank you. My name is Donald R. Tharnum, F-A-R-N-H-A-M, I was a private first class in the Marine Corps from 1943 to 1945. Ed Graham in World War II, 3rd Marine Division, 3rd Engineer Battalion. Well I am Lawrence F. Snowden, S-M-O-W-D-E-N, Lieutenant General, United States Marine Corps, retired. I served in World War II in Korea and Vietnam. My name is Jerry Yellen and I served in World War II, one of 16 million who served their nation then.