The Native Marine In America’s Most Famous WWII Photograph – And What Happened After He Came Home
They are still here.
Their language is still being taught.
Their governance structures are functioning.
Their cultural practices, suppressed for generations and now being revitalized, continue.
Hayes is remembered in that context — as a member of a community that has persisted through enormous pressure, as someone who served in the war that his generation of Akimel O’odham men served in, as someone whose post-war struggle was shaped by forces that the community as a whole has faced in various forms throughout its modern history.
The memorial to him on the reservation is a different kind of memorial than the Marine Corps War Memorial at Arlington.
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