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My favorite of the Iwo Jima flag raising photos, taken by Jim Rosenthal who famously likened combat photography to “shooting a football game. You never knew what you got on film.” 

The Marines and corpsmen in the photo, their story made famous to today’s generation by the book and subsequent film Flags Of Our Fathers, had already suffered 40% casualties at the company level and more than half cheering in this image would be dead before Iwo Jima was over.

For a brief moment, all of that is aside. These men might as well have been on a Boy Scout excursion with their buddies.

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