February 23, 1945

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 02/23/2018 at 11:00 • Filed to: None

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Joe Rosenthal/AP

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 02/23/2018 at 11:05

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My son, literally 2 days ago.

Some contractor had run over a stop sign in a new development. I used it to stage this photo (like the original...) and talk about his late great grandfather’s service on PT boats in the South Pacific.

True story.

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 02/23/2018 at 11:07

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Did they even try neutrality?

fintail > For Sweden 02/23/2018 at 11:12

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Not enough iron ore exports to Germany to make it work.

Chariotoflove > Ash78, voting early and often 02/23/2018 at 11:18

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Teaching moments sneak up on you like that.

Ash78, voting early and often > ttyymmnn 02/23/2018 at 11:34

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The eeriest part of this shot for me is that there were still several hundred (if not thousands) of Japanese soldiers still in the tunnels below them, biding their time.

ttyymmnn > Ash78, voting early and often 02/23/2018 at 11:59

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Yes, there was still a very long way to go. Back in 2015, my mother-in-law was buried at Arlington with her husband (USMC) and we spent the afternoon touring the cemetery. We made our way over to the Iwo Jima statue, and I photographed this headstone nearby. It belongs to Rene Gagnon, one of the six Marines who raised the flag. In the photo of the statue below, he is represented by the Marine on the right. Of those six Marines, three were killed on Iwo Jima. The others survived the war.

ttyymmnn > fintail 02/23/2018 at 11:59

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Ouch.