... that had a lasting effect on what happened during the Battle of Iwo Jima. The six most famous people that will always be remembered will be: Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley, Harlon Block, Michael Strank & Rene Gagnon. Those six people are the famous six who raised the American flag on top of Mt Suribachi, which occurred on February 23, 1945 "the ... . He later died & was laid to rest in the Arlington National Cemetery joined by Rene Gagnon. The other four flag raisers were laid to rest in the home states: Texas (Block), Kentucky (Sousley), Arizona (Hayes), and Wisconsin (Bradle...

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• Grade Level: High School

... father is one of the six flagraisers at Iwo Jima and decides to find out as much as he can about the others. These six young men were John Bradley, Franklin Sousley, Harlon Block, Ira Hayes, Rene Gagnon, and Mike Strank. They didn't know it at the time but these six young men were about to be a part of one of the ... most famous moments in all of American history. These brave young men risked their lives on the beaches of Japan for your freedom, my freedom and the freedom of America. John Bradley ... Depression cut deeply into the railroads forcing them to lay off many employees, becau...

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... picture. It's something like shooting a football play; you don't brag until it's developed." Six men are frozen forever in the history of the nation Ira Hayes, Franklyn Sousley, Harlan Block, Michael Strank, John Bradley, and Rene Gagnon. The picture is of six men on the top of a hill. The ground where the men are standing is in shambles. All that can be ... ...

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