The Native Marine In America’s Most Famous WWII Photograph – And What Happened After He Came Home
On the land his people had been living on since before any written record of the region existed.
On the land from which the water had been taken, the land to which he had returned again and again throughout his adult life, the land that was the ground of everything he understood about himself.
He was thirty-two years old.
He had survived Iwo Jima.
He had survived the bond tour.
He had survived a decade of struggle that would have defeated many people much sooner.
He had corrected Harlon Block’s identification.
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