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IN MEMORIAM

Remembering Arizona’s Ira Hayes, 80 years after Iwo Jima flag raising

The pride of the Pima Tribe unwittingly stepped into history in one iconic snapshot 80 years ago this month. He died thinking more about his fallen Marines than his fame, never knowing his own true impact.

Posted 2/11/25

Immortalized in a photograph one government official pledged would be seen “more widely than any other picture has been displayed in history,” at least one of the surviving Marines captured raising a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima that day never made peace with his sudden thrust into fame.

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