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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nI heard a few months ago that there was an investigation into the identification of one of the Marines in the iconic photo taken on top of Mount Surabachi over the battle of Iwo Jima. I figured that I’d wait until the investigation was ended and it looks like, sure enough, one of the Marines was misidentified, according to CNN;<\/p>\n
The investigation concluded that Navy Pharmacist’s Mate 2nd Class John Bradley was not in the photograph. Instead, the Marine Corps investigation identified the man who was in the photo: Private 1st Class Harold Schultz, from Detroit, Michigan.<\/p>\n
Schultz never spoke publicly about being in the photo before he died in 1995.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
According to Schultz’ stepdaughter, Dezreen MacDowell, remembers that he mentioned it once, from USAToday<\/a>;<\/p>\n
MacDowell now she recalls he said he was one of the flag raisers over dinner in the early 1990s when they were discussing the war in the Pacific.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarold, you are a hero,\u201d she said she told him. \u201cNot really. I was a Marine,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
She described him as quiet and self-effacing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
John Bradley’s son says that his father had never made the claim that he was one of the Marines in the photo. From ABC News<\/a>;<\/p>\n
Bradley said that until he died in 1994, his father never spoke about his experiences on Iwo Jima, always changing the subject when he would ask him about what he went through.<\/p>\n
“My father never independently said he was in that photo,” Bradley said. “He was lying in a hospital bed with post-traumatic stress after one of the worst battles in the history of the United States and the Marines approached him and said here you are in a photo, we\u2019ve determined you\u2019re in a photo. Then he finds himself in the Oval Office and the president is telling him he\u2019s in a photo.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"