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Scholarships are sponsored by Post 285 and State American Legion. Contact Ray Feirtag at 309-343-7873 for state applications. Post 285 scholarship applications are available at Carl Sandburg College.
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Freedom Is Not Free
The battle of Iwo Jima was marked by some of the fiercest fighting of World War II. 21,000 Japanese were dispersed through the island in heavy concrete bunkers. They defended their positions tenaciously and of these only 216 were taken prisoner. Iwo Jima was the first of the Japanese home islands to be attacked thus the ferocity of the battle.