Marines Confirm Decades-Old Case Of Mistaken Identity In Iwo Jima Photo

I'm also obv glad it was fixed, however, if one reads the recent flags of our fathers book and sees the film, there was that whole other mistake that was mentioned, about harlon block, I believe, that Ira Hayes was described as having gone to considerable lengths to fix, as is well known. It is of interest that the one in the photo found as mentioned in the piece only spoke of it once, apparently, as the piece recounted. Given all the tumult about the photo worldwide, especially in the US, I'm perhaps not surprised he apparently wanted no part of it, I gathered, in reading the piece. I guess the only really comparable thing one could compare those in the photo to would be Lindbergh after the flight to Paris, his existence became a virtual nightmare, obviously. Later on, there was that whole story recounted of his marriages, aside from his having been banned by Roosevelt from overt military service during ww2 due to his apparentmgerman sympathies, which led to the book The Wartime Journal of Charles A Lindbergh, an interesting read in and of itself, I'd found, where he, as a contractor during the war, apparently snuck into bombers to get in combat flights, I'd read or something like that. Obviously, notoriety clearly has its downside, even in the case of heroes, certainly. I'd read that Neil Armstrong would simply ignore any questions about the whole lunar landing, just as, I'd read in the flags of our fathers book, the Navy corpsman, whose name I unfortunately can't recall right now, had his kids, as shown in the Clint Eastwood film, say he was fishing whenever some reporter would call, evidently. One really must admire the discretion of those who performed such feats, my wife's dad charged a minefield in France during the battle of Nancy on the bank of the Moselle river andmgot a bronze, though we never knew if he got a "V". My wife, mother in-law, and sister in law, as well as my late brother in law, all said he'd never speak of it, I never knew him, he was lost before she and I met, however, given the stoic nature of those who lived through that, I'm by no means surprised, of course. Hope that was of at least some interest, would be eager to hear any thoughts, many thanks.

I am also happy!

About time! It is definitely good to give credit where credit is due.