Yes--it was all about the raising of a "replacement" flag--not the actual flag raising itself--and reduced the actual flag raising to a mere footnote, etc.
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Bradley clearly explained the earlier flag raising in much detail in his book.
Did you read it?
And the book was hardly about the raising anyway. It was about the men who did the fighting on Iwo Jima. We learn what they were like as young boys and we follow them to the most horrific days of their life and beyond. The flag raising itself was played down by each of the flag raisers.
The three who survived wanted the dead to be remembered, and not the flag raising itself.