Sunday, May 29, 2011

Six Men, a World War, a Pacific Island and an Image for All Time

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima, by Joe Rosenthal / The Associated Press.

VOA Learning English: Six Men, a World War, a Pacific Island and an Image for All Time

We remember the flag-raising captured in 1945 on Iwo Jima by a photographer and the famous statue of that historic moment THIS IS AMERICA (download mp3)

The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial, located in Arlington, Virginia.


For more info about this image, see Wikipedia: Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

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