Originally Posted by
Cypress
While stirring for its artistic and aesthetic value, that photo was staged by the photographer.
To Cypress: Not the way you imply:
Nov 24, 2009
1945
U.S. flag raised on Iwo Jima
During the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment of the 5th Division take the crest of Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest peak and most strategic position, and raise the U.S. flag. Marine photographer Louis Lowery was with them and recorded the event. Americans fighting for control of Suribachi’s slopes cheered the raising of the flag, and several hours later more Marines headed up to the crest with a larger flag. Joe Rosenthal, a photographer with the Associated Press, met them along the way and recorded the raising of the second flag along with a Marine still photographer and a motion-picture cameraman.
Rosenthal took three photographs atop Suribachi. The first, which showed five Marines and one Navy corpsman struggling to hoist the heavy flag pole, became the most reproduced photograph in history and won him a Pulitzer Prize. The accompanying motion-picture footage attests to the fact that the picture was not posed. Of the other two photos, the second was similar to the first but less affecting, and the third was a group picture of 18 Marines smiling and waving for the camera. Many of these men, including three of the six Marines seen raising the flag in the famous Rosenthal photo, were killed before the conclusion of the Battle for Iwo Jima in late March.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-...ed-on-iwo-jima
Originally Posted by
Cypress
I believe if anyone ever asked an Iwo Jima veteran what they were fighting for, they would have said they were fighting to keep themselves and their buddies alive.
To Cypress: Staying alive is instinctual. Fighting for buddies in combat comes with the territory.
Originally Posted by
Cypress
I think the probability is close to zero percent any of them were risking their lives for a flag printed on cloth.
To Cypress: Fighting for the flag is never the primary motive.
You and your kind spin everything to support your political agenda. In WWII Americans fought for their country as they do in every war:
Liberal scum assigning a moral cause to the Greatest Generation is sickening. This year’s philosophical interpretation of D-Day was more perverse than ever before.
The Greatest Generation did not fight and die to save democracy, or to save civilization, or to save foreign peoples. They fought to destroy Japan after Pearl Harbor. They only fought in Europe because Germany declared war on the U.S. a week or so after Pearl Harbor.
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...12#post3088212
Frankly, the hatred you and your kind have for Old Glory is pathological:
Remember this one from 2011? According to lip readers Michelle Obama said “All this for a damn flag." The sewer rat nods in agreement:
https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...46#post3065846
Originally Posted by
Gonzomin
Nobody is burning the flag that was at Iwo Jima.
To Gonzomin: Only because America-haters could not get their hands on it.
Originally Posted by
Grumpy
American history according to Phantasmal: 1776 Philadelphia man angry at the fledgling government burns the flag in front of Jefferson and the signers. Jefferson addresses the crowd " Don't be angry he is not being disrespectful he is just protesting which is his right."
What really happened: man burns flag in front of Jefferson and the signers. Jefferson yells "Arrest that man he is showing total disrespect to this young nation." The man is tried and fined the equivalent of 6 months pay and became an indentured servant.
To Grumpy: Libturds hate Thomas Jefferson more than they hate the flag.
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