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.
Wallace Irwin

Born: March 15, 1875
Died: February 14, 1959 (aged 83)
Bio: Wallace Irwin was an American writer. Over the course of his long career, Irwin wrote humorous sketches, light verse, screenplays, short stories, novels, nautical lays, aphorisms, journalism, political satire, lyrics for Broadway musicals, and the libretto for an opera.
Known for:
- The Woman in Red (1935)
- The Golden Bed (1925)
- American Beauty (1927)
- Hashimura Togo (1917)
- Venus in the East (1919)