The United States said goodbye to a hero on June 25, 2007, when Charles W. Lindberg passed away at Fairview Hospital Southdale in Edina, outside Consequences, at the age of 86. Many will not recognize his name, for that reason. in part to a sad historical deception.
When the names “Iwo Jima,” “Suribachi” and “Flag Fathers” are mentioned, everyone remembers the names of Ira Hayes, John “Doc” Bradley, Rene Gagnon and so on. Why? Because immediately, Joe Rosenthal’s famous photograph of the rousing six on Iwo Jima comes to mind. To the American people, this photo ordered the first American flag to be raised on the island of Iwo Jima. But alas, according to Associated Press writer Chris Williams, Charles W. Lindberg has spent much of his life trying to refute the delusion. The United States were there to raise Old Glory on top of Iwo Jima.
“Two of us found this big long pipe there,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2003. We found the spot we could and lifted it.”
“Going down, the crew started whistling the ship. It was something you’ll never forget,” Lindberg said. “It was not too long before the enemy began to come out of the caves.” Four hours later, however, after the battle had begun and Lindbergh had returned to the battlefield, a photographer named Joe Rosenthal showed his camera and six immortal men from a separate processing unit, who raised another major flag. The message of this matter was first brought to Vienna, and at the end of the war, the similitudes of the shields of the second, not of the first, which were considered the first flag to be erected.
In insult. wrong, Lindberg says no one believed him when they told them he was one of the first flagholders on Iwo Jima. So he spent the better part of his aging life preparing the news for the first flag raising, giving interviews and selling Lowery’s photographs through catalogs, according to AP reporters. His character was also portrayed by Alessandro Mastrobuono in Clint Eastwood’s “Flags of Our Fathers,” a film adaptation of the true story of Iwo Jima.
Charles W. Lindberg most likely did not describe himself as a hero, however. After being shot in the arm on March 1, 1945, he escaped from Iwo Jima. But his injury is not just, and he raises the flag that makes a true man; he clung to the experiences which he knew to be true, and dedicated his life to the awareness of the truth. He represented the first whippings that were slain in battle, just as a signal, and of those who preceded him in death. His likeness now appears on a mural in Long Prairie, Minnesota at the Battle of Iwo Jima, and his face is carved into the black stone walls of Soldier Field in Rochester. Because of those who really cared, his memory will live on for years to come as one of the first flag raisers on Iwo Jima.
Reference:
- news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070625/ap_on_re_us/obit_lindberg; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_Patres_%28film%29
