The most dramatic story of the Iwo Jima flag raisers is Ira Hayes. He said: "How could I feel like a hero when only five men in my platoon of 45 survived, when only 27 men in my company of 250 managed to escape death or injury?" (Quote and photo from the Iwo Jima Memorial website.)Good combination: Bradley's Flags of our Fathers and Johnny Cash "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" --
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war
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