The Native Marine In America’s Most Famous WWII Photograph – And What Happened After He Came Home
The Marine Corps was not immediately receptive to correcting the record.
Official identifications, once made and publicized, take on an institutional weight that makes revision uncomfortable.
There were also subsequent complications: Hank Hansen had been publicly celebrated as one of the flag raisers, photographs had been taken of him in that role, families had been told things, public narratives had been built.
Undoing an official identification required admitting an official error.
Hayes persisted.
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