Instead of flying the red flag and getting accused of being unAmerican and having to put up with the usual insanity from the RW I decided to go all patriotic and red white and blue this year. Happy May Day everyone.
If you think hard working people should be treated like dirt. If you think they should have no rights in the workplace. If you think that the wealthy elite built this country with their bare hands. If you think that we should cater exclusively to the wealthy so that they will trickle prosperity down to the rest of us. If you think that anyone making money should have the God-given right to destroy the environment. Well...today only makes you angry so go bury your head in your favorite hole.
As Ron Jeremy once might have said: "We're all pink inside!" ...but he's an admitted slut so...I don't know where I'm going with this lol
I have an American flag, I use it as a room divider right now. A few years ago, after the township threatened my gf with a lawsuit about an old car I had hiding behind some bushes about 200 feet from the road (a 1970 Pontiac LeMons... classic muscle car) I wanted to move the car by the road and glue that flag on top of it... but my gf balked at the idea lol ...ended up giving it away. Could have made a few hundred bucks nowadays just from scrap. Thanks township.
You right. Most people do not know that. The first one was done under fire. If I remember correctly most of those marines died during the war and one of the native americans had a hard time dealing with that.
I don't know, it's been pretty well publicized as being staged... maybe not at first (publicity tour for war bonds), but years later.
There were two flag raisings. I think one was in the heat of the battle and the other the battle was still going on but not in that area. The majority of the men who raised both flags were killed or severely wounded soon afterwards. in reflection staged might have been the wrong use of words since those men unlike others who sit in officers were in harms way. Lets just say two flag raisings were taken.
Yeah, as I understand it, the first flag was raised by one group of soldiers, but there were no photographers present. A major officer on one of the ships (admiral probably) saw the flag and ordered it to be brought to him, and to raise another flag in it's place. Another group of soldiers, I doubt it was the original group, carried the second flag up the hill, accompanied by a photographer this time. They took the first flag down and the photographer directed the group to raise the replacement when he was ready to take the photo.
The likely reason it became known as a "staged" photo was because it was publicized as being the original flag... more by omission of the fact that it was actually the second flag to be raised. The photo was part of the propaganda for war bonds, and was highly successful in that aspect apparently... so I don't blame them for not wanting to "rock the boat" with facts that are relatively unimportant. Years later, with interest still high for the photo (even today, it's so iconic), the facts were discovered... and one thing people don't like is to believe one thing to be absolutely true, especially for years, and then have that truth revealed as something else... even if it is just a minor embellishment by a publicity-seeking government that desperately needed that publicity for it's war bond drive. Eh, I think most people are over it lol
Looked it up and it was said that this was the first flag raising. Remembered the picture as soon as I saw it. Most of these guys and the ones who did the second raising were either killed or wounded in the continuing battle for Iwo Jima. Brave heros, all.
