This is a fascinating look into the 70th anniversary of Iwo Jima and the commemoration that ensued on March 21 on the tiny Japanese island where proud veterans — American and Japanese alike — gathered to honor on the same ground where seven decades prior they fought one of the most important, intense battles of World War II.

One of the veterans — Jerry Yellin, a former P-51 fighter pilot who turned 22 just before he touched down in Japan on March 7, 1945 — even tells of how his youngest son married the daughter of a former Japanese kamikaze pilot, which took him “from hatred to love and family”.