ON FOX NEWS NOW: WAR STORIES: IWO JIMA FLAG RAISERS

FOX NEWS ^ | 10/22/2006 | FOX NEWS

[Vermonter]

Thanks! I thought it was just one more acronym I had no clue about ;-}

[RaceBannon]

that picture has a number like it came from TOGETHERWESERVED.COM or something! :)

[mware]

I saw it last night.

I thought about Izzy today during Mass.

[SuzyQue]

I am a history buff, and military mom and sister - I don't do military speak, though. I don't know what REMF is.

[RaceBannon]

I know how to spell and type, I just have fat fingers!

[Hildy]

My Dad wrote a long story for Saturday Evening Post about Ira Hayes. One day soon I'll type it in and post it. It's great. I can't scan it, because the pages are so yellowed.

[RaceBannon]

IGGY

[Marine_Uncle]

I probably will go to see the movie. I first became aware of the original flag raising some twenty years back while reading Morrison's Two Ocean War, where he provided the Marines's names and the original picture.
What horrors brave men have to face in order to restore freedom to peoples under oppressive regimes. To them go the honor and the glory.

[mware]

I wonder if the double amputee that was interviewed in the movie actually was at Iwo Jima?

[mware]

Yeah Iggy. Did you stay to see the photos during the credits?

I was warned about the photos on a thread here. They showed a photo of him.

[scott7278]

I'd certainly be interested in reading that! The actor who played him really put some emotion into it.

[Cicero]

Of course the picture was posed, as a kind of photo op. So what. The men who raised the flag had been through a horrific battle and won. They had captured the top of the hill. So they did what victors always do, and raised the flag at the top. And then they did it again, for the camera.

It's not for nothing that that photo has remained an icon for all these years. Because what it represents was real enough--the suffering, courage, and determination of our military in a great war against terrible enemies, and their determination to win it.

[AliVeritas]

I have a lot of old WWII era songs and radio shows. I've thought about posting them to the weekend military thread... Swing, Jazz, Dorsey, James, Ellington... the rest. What do you think?

[US Navy guy]

OK one last time, a REMF stands for Rear Echelon M*ther F*cker

[SuzyQue]

I got it. Thanks.

[oyez]

Savage really run it down the other night on his show, but we all know that Savage can't handle certain things if they aren't done exactly the way he thinks they should. If Savage didn't like there is still a chance that it maybe a fairly decent movie.

I read "Flyboys" by James Brady, who also wrote "Flags". Brady took pains to relay what the Japanese thought of America in those days, which incidentally is the same opinion Americans liberals have today.

[TWfromTEXAS]

Rear Echelon Mother F#@&*#$.

Those who lead from a safe distance in the back.

[kilowhskey]

Just saw it. What jumped out at me was the notion that our nation was nearly bankrupt and that the government seized upon these men to spearhead a bond drive, the proceeds of which underwrote the final victory. I eagerly look forward to comments from those on the home front which will corroborate the film's contention of federal financial distress in the spring and summer of 1945.

[kilowhskey]

As they say on Capitol Hill, allow me to revise and extend my remarks: I eagerly await comments on either side of the issue of impending fiscal doom in the spring and summer of 1945. I suspect that the victory may have caused that issue to be plowed under. OTOH, it may well have been an Eastwood invention.

[MinuteGal]

Such a wonderful photo.....and a wonderful mom for serving our country.

Made me want to go out and buy a pair of boots, though, brrrr.......

Leni