The three who stayed on the island.

He carried their names for ten years.

What The Bond Tour Required Of Him

It is worth spending more time with the bond tour, because the experience of it shaped everything that followed in Hayes’s life, and because the standard accounts tend to summarize it in ways that miss what it actually demanded of a specific kind of young man.

The Seventh War Loan drive began in April 1945, with Iwo Jima barely secured and the Pacific war still grinding toward an uncertain end.