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Purchase a tote bag featuring the photograph "Samuel Tso Pledging Allegiance Navajo Code Talker Peart Park Casa Grande Arizona 2007 #2" by David Lee Guss. Our tote bags are made from soft, durable, poly-poplin fabric and include a 1" black strap for easy carrying on your shoulder. All seams are double-stitched for added durability. Each tote bag is machine-washable in cold water and is printed on both sides using the same image.
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Samuel Tso (1922-2012) was a member of the Navajo Code Talkers; a rapidly diminishing group of Native Americans who served in the Pacific in WW2.... more
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Samuel Tso (1922-2012) was a member of the Navajo Code Talkers; a rapidly diminishing group of Native Americans who served in the Pacific in WW2.
They saw action, including Tso, in all the Pacific land invasions, the worst being Iwo Jima. The 35 day battle took 18,000 Japanese lives.
John Wayne played a marine sergeant battling the Japanese on Iwo Jima in "Sands of Iwo Jima" (1949), with veteran director Allan Dwan at the helm.
Joe Rosenthal's classic photo of the flag raising on Mt. Suribachi immortalized that moment in time.
The survivor's of the flag raising appeared in the film including Pima Indian Ira Hayes. Dwan called him "a sad sight who loved the bottle."
Samuel Tso passed away just shy of 90 on May, 10, 2012. He had been Vice President of The Navajo Code Talkers for nearly 10 years.
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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