Three guys from Iwo Jima

[Jonathan Lighter]

I'm forced to admit that the old gray cells, they ain't what they used to
be.

JL

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > 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.
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> > 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.
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> > JL
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>  Well, as I've said, I'm already fully persuaded that the photo, with
> the emendations that you've already noted, is genuine and is not, in
> any reasonable sense of the word relevant here, a "staging."
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> I was under the impression that you were working from memory, but I
> had to be *sure*! ;-)
>
> -Wilson
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