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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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Joe Rosenthal, the photographer who took the famous picture of the
Marines, Easy Company, raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi during WWII
died at age 92.

"In that moment, Rosenthal's camera recorded the soul of a nation." -
Editors of US Camera Magazine.

"It was like shooting a football game. You never knew what you got on
film." - Joe Rosenthal, Photographer

http://www.iwojima.com/raising/lflaga.gif

Bummer.

Rest in Peace Joe.


No bummer. He lived a long and good life. Was living in an assisted living
facility in Novato near Bryan. As someone else mentioned. Read Flags of
our Fathers.