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.
Vladimir Bukovsky
Born: December 30, 1942
Died: October 27, 2019 (aged 76)
Bio: Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky was a prominent Russian activist in the Soviet dissident movement of the 1960s and 1970s and spent a total of twelve years in psychiatric prison-hospitals, labor camps and prisons within the Soviet Union.