[Graybeard58]

Based on the 2000 bestselling book of the same name, it focuses on the six US soldiers captured in AP photographer Joe Rosenthal's iconic and controversial photograph, as they raised the Stars and Stripes at the summit of Mt Suribachi.

"Controversial"? What's Controoversial about it? It's one of the most moving photos of all time. Do I give a rat's ass if the agressor nation doesn't like it?

[Romanov]

It's a brit newspaper, so I don't pay such words any attention! They still teach their schoolchildren they "let us have" the "colonies" because we had become a burden to them.... ;)

[SunTzuWu]

"Controversial"? What's Controoversial about it?

The controversy is about the photo. The famous photo is a reenactment of the actual event.

[KneelBeforeZod]

Controoversial about it?

maybe because it was staged

[bkepley]

"Controversial"? What's Controoversial about it? It's one of the most moving photos of all time. Do I give a rat's ass if the agressor nation doesn't like it?

Hopefully he was just referring to the fact that it was the second flag raised there and not the first.

[maine-iac7]

What's Controoversial about it? It's one of the most moving photos of all time. Do I give a rat's ass if the agressor nation doesn't like it?

simmer down...the controversy, I believe, has nothing to do with what the Japanese thought about it but that it may have been staged -

Still a great photo tho -

As for Eastward, from what I know of him, this wont be a PC movie...Clint is a hard-line conservative -

[Lancey Howard]

Joe Rosenthal's iconic and controversial photograph

Hmm. First time I ever heard anybody refer to Rosenthal's photgraph as "controversial" - - doesn't make sense. Unless it is "controversial" because Rosenthal posed it after he didn't get a picture of the men raising the flag the first time.

[LS]

They might mean "controversial" because the photographer first took a shot of the men standing at attention next to a small flag, which the Navy radioed to say it couldn't see from the ships. So they found a much bigger flag and "re-raised" it. The famous photo, and the subsequent statue, depict the second flag-raising.

But somehow I doubt that is what the author of this article meant.

[photodawg]

"Controversial"? What's Controoversial about it? It's one of the most moving photos of all time. Do I give a rat's ass if the agressor nation doesn't like it?
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The history of the photo is that its accuracy was challenged. There were allegations the photo was "staged". In reality what occurred was the first "original" flag raising was done with a very small flag. Rosenthal missed that photo. Independently of the photographer, the soldiers involved, dissatisfied with the size of the flag, rounded up a new one and replaced the "original". That was the photo that Rosenthal was privileged to witness and record for posterity. There was no "staging" or requests to re shoot the image. It was just luck, or perhaps divine providence, that Rosenthal was able to witness the event at all.

[Protagoras]

"Controversial"? What's Controoversial about it?

A knowledge of history would be helpful in answering that question.

[Mad Dawgg]

'"Controversial"? What's Controoversial about it?'

Well the controversy is that it was a staged event (the official photo not that the marines did it) There is actually a "real" picture of the marines raising the first flag on IJ but it is not as ascetically pleasing as the "official" picture of the raising of the flag.

[AmishDude]

I think the "controversy" is that this particular photo was posed, although there was a photo beforehand that was not.