Baron Nishi: [reading the letter from the mother of Sam, the dead marine] Remember what I said to you: always do what's right because it is right.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: I will always be in front of you.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: [Tadamichi turns up in time to stop Ito from beheading Saigo and Shimizu] I don't want you to kill my soldiers needlessly. Put down your sword. Put it down!
[Ito sheathes his katana and salutes]
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: What's going on here?
Lieutenant Ito: These men ran from Suribachi.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: Lt. Ito, I gave the order that all survivors retreat to the north caves.
Lieutenant Ito: [embarrassed] I am very sorry, General. It's just... Suribachi... has fallen.
[Tadamichi rushes to a cave opening and sees Mount Suribachi from a distance, with a U.S flag raised on the summit]
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: Everything happens in threes.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: The United States is the *last* country in the world that Japan should fight.
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: You are quite a soldier
Saigo: No, just a simple baker
Shimizu: I don't know anything about the enemy. I thought all Americans were cowards. I was taught they were savages.
Lieutenant Okubo: Shall I finish him off?
Baron Nishi: No. Treat him.
Lieutenant Okubo: But, sir...
Baron Nishi: Okubo, you would expect the same, wouldn't you? Endo, treat him.
Medic Endo: We are low on morphine as it is.
Shimizu: Sir, the Americans would not
treat a wounded Japanese soldier.
Baron Nishi: Son, have you ever met one? Treat him.
[Shimizu is lost for words]
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: You again?
General Tadamichi Kuribayashi: We will build those underground fortifications. And fight till the end.