24 August 2016

Correcting history


Rico says that Joe Rosenthal's iconic photo of the flag raising by four Marines on Iwo Jima turns out to have given credit to a guy who was not there. It was PFC Harold Schultz, not John Bradley, who was one of the men raising the flag: Ira Hayes, Harold Schultz, Michael Strank, Franklin Sousley, Rene Gagnon, and Harlon Block.

Rico says they're all dead now, so it doesn't matter to them, but might to their descendants.

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