FYI:The Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, honors all marines who have died in action since 1775, the year the Marine Corps was founded. The memorial, often called the Iwo Jima Memorial, shows the raising of the American flag on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima in 1945. Five marines and a Navy medical corpsman raised the flag after the United States captured the island from Japan during World War II.
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