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'Last Flagraiser' Dies At 86 (Iwo Jima)
WCCO.com ^ | 6/25/07 | WCCO.com

Posted on 06/25/2007 7:10:19 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Charles "Chuck" Lindberg, the last surviving flagraiser at Iwo Jima, passed away Sunday morning at Fairview Southdale Hospital.

Lindberg helped raise the first American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima. His accomplishment was later overshadowed when a replacement flag was raised a few hours later.

He was honored in February 2006 at a military ceremony marking the anniversary of the Battle of Iwo Jima. He also recently attended a groundbreaking ceremony on Memorial Day at the site of a new veterans memorial in Richfield, Minn.

Lindberg's service and legacy as the last living flagraiser was the subject of an award-winning WCCO-TV documentary in 2005.

The funeral will be held later this week at Fort Snelling Chapel.

Lindberg was 86 years old.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: flag; flagraising; hero; iwojima; obituary; veterans; wwii
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Rest In Peace, Sir.
1 posted on 06/25/2007 7:10:20 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I hope some one in Congress mentions this today.....Doubt it.


2 posted on 06/25/2007 7:15:07 AM PDT by ustanker (Secure the border!)
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To: ustanker

Maybe Norm Coleman, certainly NOT Keith Ellison.....


3 posted on 06/25/2007 7:16:17 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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To: ustanker

Truly a great Marine to endure the fighting on Iwo to be able to raise the flag. He should be recognized today in congress but I am sure they have more “pressing issues” like amnesty for Illegals or some other crap.


4 posted on 06/25/2007 7:23:43 AM PDT by SWEETSUNNYSOUTH (Help stamp out liberalism!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

This country will soon need a whole new generation of such men, in addition to the current generation that is handling the M.E. for us now.


5 posted on 06/25/2007 7:24:44 AM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: SWEETSUNNYSOUTH

Just what I was Thinking.....Disgusting what they waste their time on.


6 posted on 06/25/2007 7:30:34 AM PDT by ustanker (Secure the border!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I didn’t realize he raised the flag. Bless his heart. What a shame that he had to carry around the burden of his kidnapped son all these years. Now he’s found peace.


7 posted on 06/25/2007 7:32:40 AM PDT by Silly (Hillary has been overheard praying to Lady Elaine Fairchilde, alcoholic puppet)
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To: MoJo2001; freema; SandRat; jazusamo; chesty_puller; StarCMC

Ping...


8 posted on 06/25/2007 7:35:45 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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To: Silly

Different Lindberg......


9 posted on 06/25/2007 7:36:40 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Raising the Flag Over Iwo Jima, 1945


"As Cpl Lindberg would later remark, "Suribachi was easy to take; it was getting there that was so hard!" Of the 40-man patrol, thirty-six were killed or wounded in later fighting on Iwo Jima including Lindberg himself who would be shot through the stomach and arm a week later on 1 March, 1945. For his heroism Lindberg would receive the Purple Heart and Silver Star Medal with the citation reading in part:

"Repeatedly exposing himself to hostile grenades and machine-gun fire in order that he might reach and neutralize enemy pill-boxes at the base of Mount Suribachi, Corporal Lindberg courageously approached within ten or fifteen yards of the emplacements before discharging his weapon, thereby assuring the annihilation of the enemy and the successful completion of this platoon's mission. While engaged in an attack on hostile cave positions on March 1, he fearlessly exposed himself to accurate enemy fire and was subsequently wounded and evacuated."

Semper Fi Cpl Lindberg - we'll never forget you or those like you who saved the world from tyranny.
10 posted on 06/25/2007 7:39:02 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Charles "Chuck" Lindberg, one of America's finest.

Rest In Peace.

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Thanks for the ping, ButThreeLeftsDo.

11 posted on 06/25/2007 7:54:10 AM PDT by jazusamo (http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
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To: SWEETSUNNYSOUTH

It would be worthy of a few phonecalls today in any event...


12 posted on 06/25/2007 7:54:30 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Another of the Greatest Generation has left us.

RIP, soldier.
13 posted on 06/25/2007 7:56:39 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (..and the horse you rode in on!)
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Just a trivia question: From what ship did the first flag of Iwo come? Name & type?


14 posted on 06/25/2007 7:57:00 AM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: stevie_d_64

I will notify John Warner, Jim Webb and Bob Goodlatte. My uncle was there (Iwo Jima). He was my inspiration for joining the Marines.


15 posted on 06/25/2007 7:57:33 AM PDT by SWEETSUNNYSOUTH (Help stamp out liberalism!)
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To: oh8eleven

More........http://www.startribune.com/466/story/1266697.html


16 posted on 06/25/2007 8:12:56 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
More photos of Charles W. Lindberg.
17 posted on 06/25/2007 8:30:55 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: SWEETSUNNYSOUTH

Hopefully a quick but thoughtful statement this week would be appropriate...

I’m sure my critters John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and democrat liberal Nick Lampson are tired of me calling them about all this immigration crap...

Hopefully they’ll knock heads together and come up with something good...


18 posted on 06/25/2007 8:32:53 AM PDT by stevie_d_64 (Houston Area Texans (I've always been hated))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Never mind.


19 posted on 06/25/2007 8:44:06 AM PDT by Silly (Hillary has been overheard praying to Lady Elaine Fairchilde, alcoholic puppet)
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Charles W. Lindberg, photographed in his Richfield, Minn home on May 25, 2004, holds the Silver Star he won for bravery during the battle for Iwo Jima in World War II. Lindberg, who died Sunday June 24, 2007, was the last survivor of the six U.S. Marines who raised the first American flag over Iwo Jima. A second planting of the U.S. flag was immortalized in a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Joe Rosenthal that became one of the signature photographs of the war.
20 posted on 06/25/2007 8:53:05 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Carry Daily. Apply Sparingly.)
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