The Native Marine In America’s Most Famous WWII Photograph – And What Happened After He Came Home
Ira Hayes turned eighteen the month after Pearl Harbor.
He enlisted in the Marines at the age of nineteen.
Why A Pima Kid From Arizona Joined The Marines
In the months after December 7, 1941, enlistment offices across the country were flooded with young men who wanted to fight.
The shock of Pearl Harbor, the outrage it produced, the sense that the country had been attacked and that attack required an answer — these were powerful motivators.
They worked on Ira Hayes the same way they worked on millions of other young American men.
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