Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they've made a difference.
The Marines don't have that problem. The US Marine Corps and Air Force are locked in battle over monuments to their members who fell in combat, as America pauses to remember the dead of past wars on Memorial Day today. At issue is an air force plan to build a memorial, pictured, no more than 500ft from the Marines' prized Iwo Jima statue in Washington. The Marines are so determined to defend their perimeter that they have filed a lawsuit to fight the air force plan in court. They have also enlisted the help of an ex-Marine in Congress, Gerald Solomon, a Republican who has tabled a Bill that would force the US Air Force's memorial to be relocated.