Quote of the day
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.
Richard Gordon

Born: September 15, 1921
Died: August 11, 2017 (aged 95)
Bio: Richard Gordon is the pen name used by Gordon Ostlere, an English surgeon and anaesthetist.
Known for:
- Quantum-Touch: The Power to Heal (1999)
- Doctor in the House (1952)
- The New Human: Discovering and Becoming (2013)
- The Alarming History of Medicine (1993)
- Doctor on the Brain (1972)