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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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God bless this man, his family, and his legacy. Thanks to men who are better than I will ever be, my son will be able to live in a free country...


21 posted on 06/25/2007 8:56:16 AM PDT by Maverick68
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To: Silly

That Charles Lindbergh died in 1974.


22 posted on 06/25/2007 9:04:18 AM PDT by FoxInSocks
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Salute


23 posted on 06/25/2007 9:06:38 AM PDT by Tolsti
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To: Silly
If it were that Lindbergh he would have been 105!
24 posted on 06/25/2007 9:51:59 AM PDT by Borges
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

And little did Charles “Chuck” Lindberg know at that time that in 2007, traitorous Bush is about to give our country away.

All that fighting and loss of lives were for nothing.

God bless you, Charles.


25 posted on 06/25/2007 10:08:51 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)

What about the second group (i.e. Ira Hayes, Harlon Bloch ?sp? etal?) How many of them if any are still alive?


26 posted on 06/25/2007 10:11:11 AM PDT by rudy45
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To: azhenfud
Greetings azhenfud:

Just a trivia question: From what ship did the first flag of Iwo come? Name & type?

From Coast Guard manned LST-758, of course.

Cheers,
OLA

27 posted on 06/25/2007 10:34:26 AM PDT by OneLoyalAmerican (Truth was the first casualty in the MSM's war on President Bush.)
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LST, Large Slow Target?


28 posted on 06/25/2007 10:51:35 AM PDT by OneLoyalAmerican (Truth was the first casualty in the MSM's war on President Bush.)
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To: OneLoyalAmerican

Good evening!

Good info - but LST-758 was the source for the larger, second flag.

The smaller, first was from APA-211, USS Missoula - a Haskell class transport.

http://www.fortmissoula.org/exhibits/ww/ussmissoulaproject.shtml


29 posted on 06/25/2007 10:59:26 AM PDT by azhenfud (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: azhenfud
Greetings azhenfud:

Seems like the flag order was reversed in my mind. My bad. Let me thank you for the USS Missoula link. Wikipedia has a pretty decent ship's biography. Too bad her last chapter was a meeting with the shipbreaker. She would have made a cool WWII museum, or at worst, an artifical reef.

Cheers,
OLA

30 posted on 06/25/2007 11:24:39 AM PDT by OneLoyalAmerican (Truth was the first casualty in the MSM's war on President Bush.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I just happened to watch ‘Flags of Our Fathers’ last evening. RIP.


31 posted on 06/25/2007 11:29:44 AM PDT by HitmanLV ("Lord, give me chastity and temperance, but not now." - St. Augustine)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Goodbye. See ya up in Heaven.


32 posted on 06/25/2007 11:30:41 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: SWEETSUNNYSOUTH

Truly a great Marine

The Squid died already?


33 posted on 06/25/2007 11:31:53 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: rudy45

I believe all those from the famous photo are dead.


34 posted on 06/25/2007 11:35:01 AM PDT by irish guard
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To: TLI
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.

Fear not; hundreds of thousands of us are out here home educating a good, fresh crop of 'em.

HOMESCHOOLED KIDS: "America, we've got your six."

35 posted on 06/25/2007 11:37:43 AM PDT by HKMk23 (Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

God bless ya jarhead! RIP.

-Squid.


36 posted on 06/25/2007 11:37:54 AM PDT by rbosque
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To: rudy45
Zero. The last survivor, PHM2 John Bradley, passed away on 11 January 1994.

Harlon Block 1 March 1945
Rene Gagnon 12 October 1979
Ira Hayes 24 January 1955
Franklin Sousley 21 March 1945
Mike Strank 1 March 1945

37 posted on 06/25/2007 12:44:08 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: azhenfud
USS Missoula APA-211 Haskell-class attack transport


38 posted on 06/25/2007 12:50:24 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; All
Image and video hosting by TinyPic Their Battlefield...
39 posted on 06/25/2007 1:38:39 PM PDT by 1COUNTER-MORTER-68 (THROWING ANOTHER BULLET-RIDDLED TV IN THE PILE OUT BACK~~~~~)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
One of the guys that cuts the grass at (WI) Arcadia's Memorial Park was at Iwo Jima and saw the flag being raised. I don't remember his name off-hand. If you live in the Wisconsin or Eastern Minnesota, I invite you all to vist the park in Western Wisconsin. It has replica statues of Iwo Jima and many military heroes. It even has an I-beam from the WTC. The Chairman of Ashley Furniture designed the statues and replicated a few of them in smaller sizes than the originals.
40 posted on 06/25/2007 3:09:14 PM PDT by rabidralph
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