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By their victory, the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions and other units of the Fifth Amphibious Corps have made an accounting to their country which only history will be able to value fully. Among the Americans serving on Iwo island, uncommon valor was a common virtue.
Attar of Nishapur

Born: 1142
Died: 1221 (aged 79)
Bio: Abū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm, better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn and ʿAṭṭār, was a Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism.
Known for:
- The Conference of the Birds (1177)
- Tazkirat al-Awliya
- The Ilahi-nama
- Fifty Poems of Attar