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Iwo Jima

The photograph of these six soldiers made the newspapers. When three of the six soldiers were found in the middle of the war, they were brought back to the United States and treated like heros. They did not like all of the attention because they felt that the true heros were the ones still fighting.
Washington D.C.

August 7th 2007
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