A documentary on the battle between the United States and the Japanese on the island of Beshu during the Second World War.  Admiral Shibasaki, inside the concrete, underground Bunker says in his last letter before dying:  "May Japan exist for 10,000 years."

          The film shows the bodies of dead Marines in the water, on the shores, all of the dead and dying bodies, "Pieces and parts of people around...After a while you become accustomed to the stench from the dead bodies, you become used to it," a Marine says. A Japanese hand comes up out of the sand, the Marine pushes it back down and goes on eating. 

The Marine writes after the war:

          "The dead bodies lying on the shore are the price of freedom.  Everybody represents a human being.  There is no more democracy, no more social system for those men, the world ended for those men.  In dying, thou shalt surely not have died in vain.  We will remember (but) the world ended for those men." 

One of the saddest, most memorable and truest statements I've read in my forty years of studying warfare.
      RICHARD KOENIGSBERG