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[0460] Joe Rosenthal, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Larisa Korolev

└ posted on Monday, 4 March 2013, by Novil

Caption: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

Caption: V-J Day in Times Square

Sign: Cavemen

Larisa: I feel a little empty inside, having peaked so early in my career as photographer.

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Zaff says:

Thursday, 14 March 2013 at 23:44

Both my grand parents kissed liked that “during” the war…
She said it was more romatic those days…
waiting…
waiting…
waiting…
He never came back…
But She still waited!

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David G says:

Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 19:20

Onihikage wrote:

*Iwo Jima flag raising was the second flag raised, not the first – they took down the first to raise a bigger one and get a picture

Paeris Kiran wrote:

Nobody remembers who were the infantrymen who raised the original flag… nobody remembers who reenacted the scene.

As I understand it, there was no “reenactment”, nor staging.
As I understand it, the unit commander of the unit whose flag was originally flown recognized the historical significance of this flag. It was also his unit’s flag. To protect and conserve it, he had it removed and replaced with a lesser (but larger) flag from the carrier. This happened after the island was declared safe. Unfortunately, while they were doing this, a news cameraman happened by (they didn’t have “embedded journalists” in that age), took a picture, and didn’t bother to find out what he was seeing before sending it all over the country.
(The unit commander has been interviewed for TV. I don’t remember the program.)
Personally, as a result of all this, I consider this image an embarrassment.

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SotiCoto says:

Friday, 16 May 2014 at 15:25

Drone wrote:

It’s nice to see a similar mind to mine. Although I can’t be entirely sure how close you are to mine, since you’ve only seen what I’ve been able to write (which has been through an editing process so that it doesn’t turn into a complete essay).
You speak of risk as if I have something to lose. But these are simply anonymous internet peoples. I have neither had nor will lose anything from them. Although my goal is to gain something, but if I never receive it then I haven’t lost it either because I wasn’t mine to take (or is simply sticking its head in the sand and feigning ignorance).

Well, there is always the possibility of getting banned… but whether that is of any significance to you or not is another matter entirely.

My thought on the matter can be summarised quite simply as “better you than me”.
Then again, I just got banned from commenting ANOTHER webcomic just yesterday (arguing against the use of Trigger Warnings on the “Sister Claire” comic)… which I think takes my tally up to about 5 webcomic bannings, which doesn’t exactly suggest a lot of concern for avoiding such things.

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