The photograph is the most famous from the war, hailed for its dramatic symmetry and emotional impact, and was replicated on monuments at home, merchandise, and a U.S. postage stamp that became the biggest-selling of all time.
Three of the five Marines and one Naval corpsman were killed in action shortly after it was taken. The other three came home: John Bradley, Ira Hayes and Rene Gagnon. Bradley, right until his 1994 death, refused all interviews. He'd have family members tell reporters over the phone he was incommunicado fishing somewhere in Canada. He'd never been to Canada, he didn't fish.
In the Eastwood movie Ira Hayes, an American Indian, is portrayed by Canadian Adam Beach, an actor from Ottawa, who is also Native. The story of Ira Hayes is one of tragedy. A war hero, he came home and was treated like dirt. Because he was "just" an Indian. He took to the bottle and his saga was told in a movie starring Tony Curtis, and a song by Johnny Cash among others, The Ballad Of Ira Hayes.
http://www.ottawasun.com/News/Columnists/McRae_Earl/2006/10/19/pf-2067875.html
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Their Flag, Our Blood
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima</a><p>---<br>Diogenes said:<br />
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."
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Diogenes said:
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."
My Father served 32 yrs in the military, (42-73) Fought in Italy and Europe. Fought for your freedom. I dont think, you be knocking anyone, If Hitler, ToJO and the lil WOP had won.
Christ people.
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27 yrs in the military, 10 tours now and I hope another in Feb
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda</a><br />
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<p>---<br>Diogenes said:<br />
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."
Ya gotta love armyguy. Everybody is out of step but him
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Diogenes said:
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/movies/20flag.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1161489600&en=5796f3c07768c578&ei=5087%0A">http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/movies/20flag.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1161489600&en=5796f3c07768c578&ei=5087%0A</a><br />
“What do we want from war films? Entertainment, mostly, a few hours’ escape to other lands and times, as well as something excitingly different, something reassuringly familiar. If “Flags of Our Fathers” feels so unlike most war movies and sounds so contrary to the usual political rhetoric, it is not because it affirms that war is hell, which it does with unblinking, graphic brutality. It’s because Mr. Eastwood insists, with a moral certitude that is all too rare in our movies, that we extract an unspeakable cost when we ask men to kill other men. There is never any doubt in the film that the country needed to fight this war, that it was necessary; it is the horror at such necessity that defines “Flags of Our Fathers,” not exultation.”<br />
<p>---<br>Diogenes said:<br />
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."
But ask any of his university friends about the world, they know squat.
So maybe some of you get out of TO, Van, Vic and go and see the real world. Stop drinking Ice Caps.
The movie is not propaganda.
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27 yrs in the military, 10 tours now and I hope another in Feb
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Diogenes said:
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."
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I told you so, you never heard of that. All the education in the world cannot prepare you for the world. If you dont have the world educate you.
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27 yrs in the military, 10 tours now and I hope another in Feb
Okay! Will 1 year make you smart or taking orders for 27 years? You still got 8 more years to get a pension and do as your told untill then. Wearing a uniform in a foreign country don't make you blend in nor learn from the locals. Learning about the world from within a military agenda isn't the best way to "learn" about the world. Infact the perspective is not real.
One may assume your father had little book learning.
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Expect little from life and get more from it.
I hope it ends up being something along the lines of "Saving Private Ryan" myself, and that film was definitely not propaganda in my view.
And one question for you, Armyguy.
When was the last time you were ever under fire in the field, or saw combat?
My dad told me about guys like you, said your type talked tough while in training but cried like babies when push came to shove.
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"and the knowledge they fear is a weapon to be used against them"
"The Weapon" - Rush
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Diogenes said:
"I am Diogenes the Dog. I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy and bite scoundrels."
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27 yrs in the military, 10 tours now and I hope another in Feb