Three guys from Iwo Jima

[Judy Prince]

I haven't a clue to whom I'd put this, so just jumped in here, Jonathon.

My friend's father would often, sitting beside his girlfriend, watch old tv
newsreels on what they'd call "Ima Jima" (pronounced "eema jeema")

I love that.

Judy

On 28 September 2010 12:39, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> I'm forced to admit that the old gray cells, they ain't what they used to
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> > > Memory. And I was not quite accurate. There were *six* guys in the
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> > > 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).og=
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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*! ;-)
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> > -Wilson
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> > All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"=E2=80=93a strange
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> > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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