----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Sullivan" Subject: Re: RE: Goin' to Montanaaaaaa!
> Bill, > It isn't that kind of a book. The book recounts the history of the > individual flag raisers before and after the picture. The funeral > director guy joined the Navy to stay out of the ground war. His > beginning training in Undertaking got him into the medical corps and > then the units training for Iwo Jima. They were all just kids > straight out of the '40's. > Most of them didn't fare well after the flag raising. The three who > came back for the war bonds tour survived, but only the Wisconsin > undertaker thrived. Their lives were sadly colored by the experience. > It's the kind of thing that haunts you with a lifetime of nightmares. Perhaps I'll give it a read. I still very vividly recall my father's nightmares from his tours in Europe, including one very frightfull night when he was pretty much screaming his lungs out in his sleep, which ended with my mom, apparently sitting up in bed getting punched square in the face while being screamed at to "get your stupid head down before it gets shot off". Her nose was taped up for weeks after that one. I suspect my childhood has a lot to do with my attitudes towards the glorification of anything military. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
