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AMP remembers ‘Flags of Our Fathers’
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Posted on Mar 02 2006
The American Memorial Park Visitor Center is inviting the public to come and view documentary films honoring war veterans, specifically films that remember the Battle of Iwo Jima.
AMP Visitor Center site manager Jessica Jordan said that the center would be showing educational films and classic movies free of charge at the AMP Visitor Center Auditorium starting tonight until Sunday evening.
“These films will be shown in honor of the World War II veterans of the Marianas and Iwo Jima campaigns who are visiting Saipan this week before traveling on to Iwo Jima,” said Jordan.
Some 26 World War II veterans will be honored today at the American Memorial Park Court of Honor at 11:30am. Jordan said the ceremony is open to the public.
The film showing will include Heroes of Iwo Jima, hosted by Gene Hackman and featuring interviews with James Bradley, author of best-selling Flags of Our Fathers. The book is now being transformed into a full-length film by award-winning director Clint Eastwood. The film showing will start at 5:30pm tonight.
For tomorrow, the film Iwo Jima: Hell’s Volcano will be shown at 1pm. This film is the ultimate chronicle of this deadly battle, from planning the assault to the vital role the island played in the bombing of Japan.
Then at 4pm, AMP will be showing Pearl Harbor: Vol. 4 Iwo Jima, a depiction of Iwo Jima when it became the “scene of earth-shaking bombardments and an epic, bloody battle.” A bonus segment will also be shown on Okinawa and special features such as trivia quiz and biography of Harry S. Truman.
On Sunday, Heroes of Iwo Jima will again be shown, this time at 1pm, followed by Sands of Iwo Jima at 3pm, featuring John Wayne as Sgt. Stryker, a nard-nosed Marine sergeant who must mold a company of raw recruits into a combat-ready fighting machine. “Feared by many and hated by all, Stryker’s training is soon put to the test in a full-scale assault against the Japanese on Iwo Jima—an infamous battle that will live forever in one of cinema’s most famous scenes, the flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi.”
