Three guys from Iwo Jima

[Laurence Horn]

Well, "Three Guys From Iwo Jima" is a better name for a sushi joint
than "Five or Six Guys From Iwo Jima".

LH

At 8:09 PM -0400 9/27/10, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>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:
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima_(color).ogg
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>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.
>>  >
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>>  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.
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>>  (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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