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Johnny Cash music homage Ballad of Ira Hayes Old Tucson Arizona 1971 iPhone 7 case by David Lee Guss. Protect your iPhone 7 with an impact-resistant, slim-profile, hard-shell case. The image is printed directly onto the case and wrapped around the edges for a beautiful presentation. Simply snap the case onto your iPhone 7 for instant protection and direct access to all of the phone's features!
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Ira Hayes (1923-1955) was one of five Marines and a Navy corpsman who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima on February 23rd, 1945. Joe... more
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Protect your iPhone 7 with an impact-resistant, slim-profile, hard-shell case. The image is printed directly onto the case and wrapped around the edges for a beautiful presentation. Simply snap the case onto your iPhone 7 for instant protection and direct access to all of the phone's features!
Ira Hayes (1923-1955) was one of five Marines and a Navy corpsman who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi at Iwo Jima on February 23rd, 1945. Joe Rosenthal's Pulitizer Prize winning photograph immortalized Hayes. (He is on the far left, his face not even visible in the picture.) Only three of the flag raisers survived the fierce fighting at Iwo. They became national heroes.
Four years later they, and the actual flag used in the photo, appeared with John Wayne in Republic Pictures, "The Sands of Iwo Jima." With the perspective of time, both he and fellow soldier Barry Sadler, composer of the blockbuster song "The Ballad of the Green Berets," would have been better off had they not been suddenly thrust into the spotlight of fame. That fame ultimately brought them disaster.
Johnny sings "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" with biting anger and outrage. Hayes has been portrayed three times in films or TV; not until 2006 by a Native American. Lee Marvin and Tony Curtis portrayed him...
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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