Historian and naval officer Samuel Eliot Morison described the fighting this way in his book "The Struggle for Guadalcanal": "For us who were there, or whose friends were there, Guadalcanal is not a name but an emotion, recalling desperate fights in the air, furious night naval battles, frantic work at supply or construction, savage fighting in the sodden jungle, nights broken by screaming bombs and deafening explosions of naval shells."

VOA: special.2011.06.23

Iowa National Guard veteran Kyle Hoefling took off from work to join a rally the night before Mr.Obama's visit.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

"North Korea fed its version of the story to the people, saying the reason Kim looks this way is not because he's lost his health, but because he works day and night for the people, visiting work sites and so on,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.30