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...pressure has crushed many war heroes. World War II Flying Ace "Pappy" Boyington returned to take to the bottle, fall into debt and observe bitterly: "Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum." Marine Ira Hayes, one of the idolized flag raisers at Iwo Jima, died at 32 in a drunken stupor, frozen in the wintry outdoors of an Indian reservation. Similar strains tear at relatively unknown Congressional Medal of Honor winners as their wartime exploits dog them. Marine Johnny Basilone, decorated for bravery at Guadalcanal, was obsessed with the notion that someone else had done...
...lull of reconversion into classrooms and offices for the Physics Department and professors in Social Relations, Shannon Hall is an eerie empty shell. The upper stories are barren since the Army took away their two Jima pictures and recruitment posters last year. The Air Force unit still occupies one office, but it is impossible to find. The Navy has been ghettoized off in a basement corridor...
...wrong picture. He is on the Lusitania, but shoots only the horizon and a snip of the bow as the ship goes down; he is present at a political assassination, but records only the assassin's coattails; he was present when the flag was raised at Iwo Jima, but handed his camera to someone else while he helped the Marines put up the colors. "Maybe he is only unsuccessful in terms of the majority report," Plimpton asserts. "He's not a failure in my lights at all, because his view of the world is the extremely sensitive...
Still, Americans are increasingly troubled about the moral content of their assumptions. A group of Marines in Viet Nam were discussing the flag raising over Iwo Jima, that heroic image of World War II. "Hell," said one Marine, "a man could get himself killed doing that." "Within the kids' lifetimes, this flag hasn't stood for the things it stood for when John Glenn and I were young." says Allen Brown, a Cincinnati lawyer. "The flag then was still the flag of the dream. It's hard for us to understand kids who have only a book idea...
Forty-five minutes later, a helicopter ferried the three astronauts to the Iwo Jima. Smiling and remarkably steady on their feet, the astronauts were greeted by cheers from sailors and a fitting musical tribute from the Iwo Jima's band: Aquarius. Nine doctors on hand to meet the space travelers found them in surprisingly good health?except for Fred Haise's mild urinary-tract infection?after their exhausting and agonizing adventure...