Excerpt from letter of Admiral <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_A._Spruance" class="extiw" title="w:Raymond A. Spruance">Raymond Ames Spruance</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" class="extiw" title="w:United States Navy">U.S. Navy</a>, to his wife, Margaret Spruance, March 13, 1945.  Admiral Spruance wrote this letter during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" class="extiw" title="w:World War II">World War II</a> regarding the historic "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima" class="extiw" title="w:Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima">Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima</a>" photograph by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Rosenthal" class="extiw" title="w:Joe Rosenthal">Joe Rosenthal</a>.  This framed excerpt is located at the model of the Marine Corps War Memorial at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_War_College" class="extiw" title="w:Naval War College">Naval War College</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport,_Rhode_Island" class="extiw" title="w:Newport, Rhode Island">Newport</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhode_Island" class="extiw" title="w:Rhode Island">Rhode Island</a>.
Leonard J. DeFrancisci
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