{"id":58404,"date":"2015-02-23T18:32:51","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T23:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=58404"},"modified":"2015-02-23T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T23:33:13","slug":"70-years-ago-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58404","title":{"rendered":"70 years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=58406\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58406\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/First_Iwo_Jima_Flag_Raising-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"First_Iwo_Jima_Flag_Raising\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/First_Iwo_Jima_Flag_Raising-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/First_Iwo_Jima_Flag_Raising-262x333.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Members of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division reached the summit of Mount Suribachi 70 years ago today. They marked their arrival with the first, less dramatic photo above taken by SSgt. Louis R. Lowery, USMC. Later that day, they raised the more iconic photo below, taken by Joe Rosenthal, an Associated Press photographer.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=58405\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58405\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WW2_Iwo_Jima_flag_raising-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"WW2_Iwo_Jima_flag_raising\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-58405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WW2_Iwo_Jima_flag_raising-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WW2_Iwo_Jima_flag_raising-413x333.jpg 413w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/WW2_Iwo_Jima_flag_raising.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>The second photo went on win a Pulitzer prize that year and became the model for the Marine Corps Memorial near Arlington Cemetery which was unveiled in 1954. Thanks to reader Ohio for not allowing us to let the event pass without notice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division reached the summit of &hellip; <a title=\"70 years ago today\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=58404\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">70 years ago today<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}