Beautiful picture - thanks for posting it.
Back when Carter was president, I used to live across the street at the Arlington Towers, a high-rise apartment complex that was more or less run down. The Marines would hold a ceremony every evening, and I sometimes went out to watch it.
Since then, Big Business has moved into the Rosslyn neighborhood of Arlington. High rises replaced the local pharmacy and the mom-and-pop shops and restaurants, and Arlington Towers was cleaned up and refurbished and is now River Place, home of wealthy lobbyists and high-ranking bureaucrats. When Emerald Robinson was on Newsmax, you could see it in the background when she broadcasted from her home.
I had an uncle who was on Iwo. I didn’t find out until his funeral.