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 Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:19 pm
Has anyone else read this book. It is about the famous flag raising photo taken by Joe Rosenthal and the story that surrounds it.
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Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:37 pm
I want to read it. I actually met one of those guys once. I'll always remember that.
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:33 pm
That is cool that you got to meet one of them. As a Marine I wish I could have met one of them.
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Posted: Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:18 pm
I had to read that book for an American Civics class before the movie came out. The darn thing is so gorey (not sure of spelling), that most of the students simply refused to read it. There was a part where James Bradley (son of John Bradley who was one of the flagraisers) wrote about how one of the young boys who joined in the battle (the two of them were known as the "Buttermilk Boys" because they had joined at only 15.) and how he died. He vividly described how the young man's friend felt when he had realized his best friend was sliced in two in a moment. He started describing blood and entrails... it was quite grotesque. The additional author, Ron Powers, has no relation to any of the 6 young men, John Bradley (Navy medic), Rene Gagnon (Marine), Michael Strank (Marine), Harlon Block (Marine), Franklin Sousley (Marine), and Ira Hayes (Marine). An excellent book about what happened on Iwo Jima, but it is far too vivid in the details for me.
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