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To: weegee

Okay, I'm going to show my youngish age here:

Ira Hayes - as in also the subject of a Johnny Cash song? Ballad of Ira Hayes?


2 posted on 10/19/2006 10:08:47 AM PDT by elc (Feeling the babywearing love)
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To: elc

"You feel this most of all in the characterization of Hayes, whose post-war descent into alcoholism and near-madness has been told many times before, in song ("The Ballad of Ira Hayes," covered by Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash)"


3 posted on 10/19/2006 10:12:06 AM PDT by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: elc

Yes, the Johnny Cash song was about the Pima Indian Ira Hayes who numbered among the five men hoisting the flag atop Suribachi.


7 posted on 10/19/2006 10:32:53 AM PDT by Petronski (Living His life abundantly.)
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