Three guys from Iwo Jima

[Wilson Gray]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> The man farthest from the camera is nearly
> obscured.
>

True. But I didn't think that it was certain that even the fourth guy
- he has his hands up, but were they ever actually on the flagpole? -
was truly involved in the flag-raising, let alone the fifth one. In
fact, that's what led me to kinda/sorta/maybe accept the *possibility*
- I *want* to believe! - that the photo had been staged. But, of
course...

Youneverknow.

(BTW, are you working from memory, as I *always* am? Or did you go
take a look at a repro of the photograph?)

--
-Wilson
–––
All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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