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Default Re: Heroes/Icons of WW2 - 03-22-2005, 03:06 PM

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Ira Hayes was a Pima Indian who enlisted in the United States Marine Corps early in World War II. He gained fame in the Pacific campaign when he, along with four fellow Marines and one Sailor, raised the US flag over Iwo Jima while the battle still raged for that island fortress. The act of raising the flag was captured by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal and became the image on the biggest-selling American postage stamp of all time.

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One of them, the head that you see in that back is a Manchester New Hampshire man, who grew up not too far from where Adam Sandler grew up some 30 years later


  
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