“Friends are found on the battlefield, and unfortunately friends are also lost. And where do we find the measure of that sacrifice? How can we account for the value of that loss? Sometimes we can find an answer in our sense of country, at other times in our Corps. But clearly we can see it in the lives that were able to continue due to the acts of others who were not so fortunate.”

—  Jim Webb

[2008-03-07, http://www.jameswebb.com/speeches/iworeunion.htm, February 2000, Speech at Iwo Jima reunion]

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