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Iwo Jima; frontal
The Marine Corps War Memorial is commonly called the Iwo Jima Memorial.
This view looks straight back to the statue. The city behind the statue is Rosslyn Virginia. The memorial is actually within the bounds of the Arlington Cemetery but it's reasonably far from the tombstones and very exposed between expressways and such.
The memorial is 78-feet long and it weighs about 100 tons. It is based on Joseph Rosenthal's photograph of the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima during World War II. An American Indian, Ira Hayes, was one of those depicted (although I'm not sure which one he is) and a Johnny Cash song talks about him dying of liquor and poverty, facing white discrimination for the rest of his lifetime. |