Iwo Jima In The Easy Company

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In the year 1979, Chicago Tribune writer Mary Elson surprised Jack Bradley at work. He gave her a ten-minute interview. He was talking about how he regrets that there was a flag attached to the pipe he put in the ground. She completely misunderstood what he was talking about, but James Bradley believed it captures the plainness of the moment of the flag raising in contrast to the public's grand perception of it. In the 1980s, Dave Severance began to organize reunions for the Marines who fought on Iwo Jima in the Easy Company. Jack Bradley did not attend any of the reunions that were planned. He did not go because he could not be himself since he had been out by the press for his role in the photograph. His son James Bradley believed it was