Had a weekend of Japanese WWII thanks to Clint Eastwood and the new Janus collection of films at the Mansfield Library (野火 - "Fire on the Plain"). I tried digging up some of the actual letters depicted in the film "Letters From Iwo Jima," in an effort to more fully digest the tragedy and futility of war in general. I found several links to letters from Kamikaze pilots before departing on their final mission. Also Wikiquote has a page devoted to Gen. Kuribayashi. And finally, books and other links to further letters of pilots and soldiers can be found here.
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My teacher just sent me this link of a diary kept by one of the soldiers on Iwo Jima. In Japanese, but you can get the gist if you use Babelfish.
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