Posted on 04/20/2008 7:54:51 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
Joe Rosenthal's iconic photograph from World War ll, of battle weary soldiers on Iwo Jima struggling to raise the American flag amidst the debris of war, symbolized the spirit of our military, the spirit of our country.
More than 55 years later, amidst the horrifying debris of the destroyed World Trade Center, weary firemen, consciously imitating their valiant older brethren, raised the American flag, once again symbolizing the strength of our country.
Update -- Russ Vaughn adds:
TIME Magazine, that bastion of objective news reporting, where journalistic ethics are disappearing even faster than their readers (circulation rates down 17.5% in 2007 from the previous year according to Wikipedia) has trashed an American patriotic icon with its latest cover:
The cover is insulting to all American warriors but constitutes absolute sacrilege to one particular branch of American fighting men. TIME’s clueless, liberal editors may have endeared themselves to Al Gore and his Green Lemmings but they have surely incurred the wrath of a far more formidable green organization, the entire present and past United States Marine Corps, the lean, mean Green Machine.
In this confrontation between boneheads and Jarheads, all I can say is Semper Fi!
Today? Trivializing and twisting this vital symbol and all it stands for: For only the second time in 85 years, Time magazine abandoned the traditional red border it uses on its cover. The occasion – to push more global warming alarmism.
The cover of the April 21 issue of Time took the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag and replaced the flag with a tree. The cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green “the new red, white and blue.”
Some veterans of Iwo Jima are up in arms: Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media Institute on April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was a “disgrace.”
“It’s an absolute disgrace,” Mates said. “Whoever did it is going to hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.”
Mates also said making the comparison of World War II to global warming was erroneous and disrespectful.
“The second world war we knew was there,” Mates said. “There’s a big discussion. Some say there is global warming, some say there isn’t. And to stick a tree in place of a flag on the Iwo Jima picture is just sacrilegious.”
If that photograph is copyrighted, the estate should sue.
Just think of all the trees and landfill space we can save if Time magazine goes the way of the dodo bird. It is definitely not worth the paper it’s printed on.
Besides the muslim-islamist murder manual, koran, what will I wipe my butt with, if it does go dodo?
LOL, I am staying away from that as the vikings live here!
Talk about a “war” with no exit strategy: this is IT!!!
This Photoshopped photo is a disgrace. On the other hand, what else can you expect from a bunch of Commie libs? Their bogus “global warming” hoax is slowly coming unraveled. They are getting desperate.
Somebody warned me about the Viking kitties the week I signed up a couple of years ago.
I would think that the authoritahs would get a kick out of this.
I’ve never actually seen the vikings in action if that is what you are referring to.
I should be the leader of the marauding savages. Is there an election where I can run for that position?
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(It's a burial ground I tell ya' and folks don't talk about it) :^)
I am outraged at people constantly getting outraged. Isnt it time we all put on our big boy pants and stop being insulted by everything?
I'll talk to Jim and whoever is in charge of the VK. I understand their job is to humiliate any newbies or trolls. Nobody could do a better job of that than me.
Jim, where do I send my resume? I think my work speaks for itself. Please bring me in for a private interview.
and I don't mean the editorials
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