"I never once before witnessed the obvious military influence on the young until i watched this boy bring his dead brother to a cremation site. He stood at attention, only the biting of his lower lip betraying his emotions. I wanted to go to him to comfort him, but I was afraid that if I did so, his strength would crumble."

From: O'Donnell, Joe. Japan 1945: A U.S. Marine's Photographs from Ground Zero. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2005; 74.