Three guys from Iwo Jima

[Jonathan Lighter]

A place of screaming meemies.

JL

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Judy Prince <jbalizsprince at gmail.com>wrote:

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> I haven't a clue to whom I'd put this, so just jumped in here, Jonathon.
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> My friend's father would often, sitting beside his girlfriend, watch old tv
> newsreels on what they'd call "Ima Jima" (pronounced "eema jeema")
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> I love that.
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> Judy
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> On 28 September 2010 12:39, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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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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> > JL
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> > 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
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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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> > t to
> > > come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
> > > =E2=80=93Mark Twain
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