Those numbers, he said, would certainly be censored most Americans would never hear about this enormous loss of life.Īnother report clicked in: AN UNCONFIRMED RUMOR IS SWEEPING THE SHIP THAT THE FLAG HAS BEEN SIGHED ON THE TOP OF THE HIGHEST POINT OF THE SAVAGELY CONTESTED SOIL.Ī discouraged correspondent in the room said it must be a bad joke. "Poetic, isn't he, this morning?" muttered one correspondent. Dickey watched as one communication clicked in: INCOMPLETE CASUALTY REPORTS INDICATE THAT FOR ONE OUT OF TEN AMERICANS WHO CHARGED ASHORE HERE THERE WAS BEEN NO SUNRISE. She and the nurses traveled from Hawaii to Guam, where the teletype printer in the correspondent's room was directly linked to a ship just off Iwo Jima. "I was certain of one conclusion," she wrote: "there was in all the world at this moment only one story: the men fighting and dying on Iwo Jima."ĭickey wanted to get closer to that story.
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