PHOTO: 67 years ago today (02/23/45)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945, by Joe Rosenthal. It depicts five United States Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman raising the flag of the United States atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.

The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications. Later, it became the only photograph to win the Pulitzer Prize for Photography in the same year as its publication, and came to be regarded in the United States as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time.

Of the six men depicted in the picture, three (Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, and Michael Strank) were killed during the battle; the three survivors (John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes) became celebrities upon their identification in the photo. The picture was later used by Felix de Weldon to sculpt the Marine Corps War Memorial, located adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery just outside Washington, D.C.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima

[Siwsan]

1. Amazing photo

My Dad served with Ira Hayes. Not during the war, but he knew him after, when Dad was station in DC, with President Truman's honor guard.

[RZM]

2. Feb. 23 is also 'Red Army Day'

Now known as 'Defender of the Fatherland Day.'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Day

[riverwalker]

3. real time WW2

this is fascinating to follow day by day events as the war unfolded.

WW2 Tweets from 1940
@RealTimeWWII

Livetweeting the 2nd World War, as it happens on this date & time in 1940, & for 6 years to come.

WW2 Tweets from 1940 ‏ @RealTimeWWII

https://twitter.com/#!/RealTimeWWII

Carl Tangen, Norwegian journalist, to be charged with "contempt of the throne" for attacking Hitler in article, as Fuhrer is Head of State
WW2 Tweets from 1940 WW2 Tweets from 1940 ‏ @RealTimeWWII


Britain's knitters have responded too enthusiastically after being urged to knit comforts for troops. UK facing wool shortage.
WW2 Tweets from 1940

[starroute]

4. 72 years ago today an event of greater historical significance occurred

http://www.tlaxcala.es/imp_gal.asp?lg=nw&reference=19

This Land Is Your Land is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by Woody Guthrie on February 23, 1940 on an existing melody (When the World's on Fire, a Baptist hymn), in response to Irving Berlin's God Bless America, which Guthrie considered unrealistic and complacent. Tired of hearing Kate Smith sing it on the radio, he wrote a response originally called God Blessed America for Me. Guthrie varied the lyrics over time, sometimes including more overtly political verses than appear in recordings or publications.

He recorded it in 1944 and copyrighted it in 1945. The song was not published until 1951, when it was included in a mimeographed booklet of ten songs with typed lyrics and hand drawings. The booklet was sold for 25 cents.




This land is your land, this land is my land
From California to the New York Island
From the Redwood Forest to the Gulf Stream waters
This land was made for you and me.

As I went walking that ribbon of highway
I saw above me that endless skyway
I saw below me that golden valley
This land was made for you and me.

I roamed and I rambled and I followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
While all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me.

As I went walking I saw a sign there
And on the sign it said "No Trespassing."
But on the other side it didn't say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.

When the sun came shining, and I was strolling
And the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
A voice was chanting, As the fog was lifting,
This land was made for you and me.

Nobody living can ever stop me,
As I go walking that freedom highway;
Nobody living can ever make me turn back
This land was made for you and me.

In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me?

[RC]

5. Johnny Cash - The Ballad of Ira Hayes

[MarianJack]

6. GREAT song!

Thank you for posting!

PEACE!

[FogerRox]

7. My Dad served on an Escort carrier that was in the same area at about that time.

dar operator.

TnR- thanks

[Old Troop]

8. Thanks for posting this