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John Steinbeck's 'Flags Of Our Fathers'

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Flags of Our Fathers is a book about the Battle of Iwo Jima. There were young men from teenagers to adults. Many of the young men that joined didn 't want to have anything to do with war, but when they joined they had a duty to fulfill. Their duty is the legal obligations that they have to follow which means that if they are sent to war they have to do their jobs. All the men that fought in this battle have motivation. This motivation comes from their duty. The young men that fought in this war were motivated to high amounts of valor. The valor that these men in battle had was courage and bravery. These men were motivated from their duty to the Marine Corps. The duty that these men had was to take over the Japanese territory and make them

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