Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 03:35 PM 9/14/1999 -0400, Paul Schiemer wrote: >Or, as I remember, the staged photo of the flag raising on Iwo Jima (to end >up on the cover of Life, to become the model after which a famous sculpture >at Arlington is based. Didn't that win a Pulitzer too?? I must protest this unwarranted attack on the brave Marines who hoisted that flag. It was not a "staged" photograph, at all. The original party only had a regular flag with them; a much larger "battle flag" was sent up and they raised that so that all the US forces on the island could see that the peak had been captured. Both flag-raisings were photographed. My father's best friend in Alaska, after the War, was Ray Larsen, one of the party who raised the original flag. The flag-raising was NOT staged; it was NOT a publicity event. It was brave men doing what brave men do in battle. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!