Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:17 PM 9/14/99 -0700, Mark Rabiner wrote: >Both true it was done real and then restaged. >They were still taking some fire but the sun shining. There is no >disrespect to >the marines. They just wanted to make sure they got the shot. NO! It was NOT restaged. How long can this go on? There is incontrovertible proof all over the place. Investigations have been done and the photographer who took the picture, Joe Rosenthal explained what happened. The soldiers at the other end of the island couldn't see the flag. It was too small. So they replaced it with a bigger flag. When they put that flag up, Rosenthal took the picture. No restaging. They did not do it for the camera. One of my journalism teachers had a signed copy of the photo in his office. He was a friend of Rosenthal. He knows the story REAL well. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch Common sense is that layer of prejudices laid down in the mind prior to the age of eighteen. - Albert Einstein