Three guys from Iwo Jima

[Joel S. Berson]

At 9/27/2010 12:24 AM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>Have you considered the possibility that there aren't that many ways
>three guys can raise a flagpole?

And that is the mathematically required minimum
-- two guys can't hold up a flagpole in a wind.

Joel


>DanG
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>On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:18 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > As a lagniappe from a Catalan bookseller, I've received a reproduction
> > of the cover of Renacimiento Aragones, an Aragonese-nationalist
> > journal. It shows, in the foreground, three guys on a mountaintop
> > struggling to raise a young telephone-pole to which has been attached
> > the Aragonese flag.
> >
> > I immediately recognized this as a rip-off of the raising of the
> > American flag on Mount Suribachi.
> >
> > Surprisingly, though, the date on this cover is
> >
> > no.1, 15 de octubre de _1935_.
> >
> > I've heard and read for dekkids that the Suribachi photo was staged.
> > Since what I have is only a repro of a supposed original that was
> > extremely unlikely to have been seen by some random
> > combat-photographer, well ... Further deponent sayeth not, because
> >
> > Youneverknow.
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