Sgt,
Almost finished with our trip.
As I said, Many people will never get a chance to visit Washington, D.C and see the monuments there relating to the various wars our service men and women have fought in.
And seeing the professional staged photos in Magazines and on the web, I feel don't give the real life of being there experience that the photographs you take personally does.
So in that vein, I hope these are acceptable substitutes.
Any one that wants to download save and share you're more than welcome to do so. I only ask one thing, don't claim them as your own.
On Saturday May 26, 2012 after riding a Motorcycle from Wyoming to to D.C. , girlfriend and I first visited the Iwo Jima memorial also known as The Marine Corps Memorial.
As most of us know it is reproduced from a photo by Joe Rosenthal Of the raising of the second flag on Iwo Jima on Feb 23, 1945.
Five Marines and One Navy Corpsman are in the picture. Frank Sousley, Harlon Block, Michael Strank, Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, and the Corpsman John Bradley.
Many don't realize that the sculpture sits on a pedestal. Around the top of the pedestal in gold engraving are climatic moments of Marine Corps History. So to capture as much of this as I could, I took pictures from all around the memorial. Thus it will take two newsletters to see them all, if the sarge is willing to post them. When we leave here we go to Vietnam monument, WW II and the Korean War.
I hope I have done these justice.
Semper Fi
ChooChoo
Sgt of marines (nla)
1968-1974 RVN 70-71
Next batch will be an entire overview of the whole monument. I hope you enjoy! The memorial bouquest went all around the monument.