The Native Marine In America’s Most Famous WWII Photograph – And What Happened After He Came Home
He is Ira Hamilton Hayes.
He is Akimel O’odham.
He is from the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona.
He is the son of farmers who tried to work land from which the water had been taken.
He is a Marine who completed parachute training and chose the hardest path because it was the hardest path.
He is a young man who survived something terrible and came out of it carrying everything that survival in such circumstances requires a person to carry.
He is not the symbol.
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