Brad Morton James Bradley with Ron Powers, Flags of Our Fathers (New York City, New York: Delacorte Press, 2001) James Bradley, the son of a man who helped raise the flag in the iconic Iwo Jima picture during WWII, writes the story Flags of Our Fathers to honor those who fought alongside his father. James felt it was important to write the memoir and it was the boxes of documents and pictures that his dad left behind when he finally passed away that made him write it. James wrote it was difficult getting information out of his father while he was alive because the war was so hard on John. Once James’ father passed away, he knew he set out to learn what happened on Mt. Suribachi that day. Bradley wrote that the six flag raisers were all young