Johnny Cash Music Homage Ballad Of Ira Hayes Old Tucson Arizona 1971 #2
by David Lee Guss
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Johnny Cash Music Homage Ballad Of Ira Hayes Old Tucson Arizona 1971 #2
Artist
David Lee Guss
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Photograph - Photography
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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 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 in red face. At least they were WW2 vets; Marvin a Marine sniper and Curtis in the Pacific on a submarine tender. (He witnessed the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.) Marvin and Hayes suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and excessive fondness for alcohol. They are both buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
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