Three guys from Iwo Jima

[Jonathan Lighter]

Memory. And I was not quite accurate. There were *six* guys in the photo,
and *two* were obscured, one almost to the point of invisibility.

Run the film clip at Wacki and you'll see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima_(color).ogg

The associated article addresses the "staging" controversy too. I was right
about that.

JL

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:33 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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