Anyone who knows me well knows how patriotic I am. I received several autographs from the "Kissing Soldier" today in the mail. You might remember the famous picture from Time Magazine, August 27th 1945. (I'm using it as my Myspace profile pic for now). The picture was taken on VJ Day. His name is Carl Muscarello, and as known as the sailor who kissed the nurse. Well, I'll have to say out of almost 350 autographs that I'm the proudest of this one.
My mother sent this next story and its a true story, I hope you take the time to read it and think about it. Be thankful we live here, and thank the men and women who sacrificed their lives for us and those who continue to sacrifice for us!!! Of course these are two different wars and two different men but they still signify freedom, America, fighting for what we believe in and heroes.
Hugs, ~Rennie~
Here is the story:
Six Boys And Thirteen Hands...
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REMINDER: Everyday that you can wake up free, it's going to be a great day.
PS. One thing I learned while on tour with my 8th grade students in DC that is not mentioned here is that if you look at the statue very closely and count the number of "hands" raising the flag, there are 13. When the man who made the statue was asked why there were 13, he simply said the 13th hand was the hand of God.
Great story - worth your time - worth every American's time
10 comments:
This is a great story!! I never knew all that. I have been to Washington DC and see that statue. How cool!!
U.S. Marine Corps gunnery sergeant Thomas W. Miller Jr., who was a Iwo Jima at that time and lives in Arlington, apparently has written a book debunking the myth: The Iwo Jima Memorial & the myth of the 13th hand.
Just check this site out and see what it has to say about the truth in this post I blogged:
http://www.snopes.com/military/sixboys.asp
The article you link to says the 13th hand reference is a rumor and that the sculpture himself says there are only 12.
Please remove my copyrighted material "The Boys of Iwo Jima" from your web site. I have sent emails to you but have received no response.
Thank you
I never received your e-mail. I will remove it but it would seem that you would prefer me to just add you as the author. It's a very moving and touching story. I got the story from my mother and no author was attached. I am terribly sorry that you weren't credited.
I will take it down immediately and thank you for writing the story, it's such a good one. I even stood up for you telling it was a true story when someone tried to debunk it. I will e-mail this response to you as well.
I was a gunnery sergeant on Iwo Jima from 19 Feb to 26 Mar 1945. I first heard the “13th hand” story early in 1999 from a 4-H group from California. Then, I could not confirm or deny the story — but I did not believe it was true — so I began researching it and before the year was out I published the booklet “The Iwo Jima Memorial & the Myth of the 13th Hand.” Over two editions (1999, 2001), 13 thousand copies were sold. It is no longer in print.
My research was conducted at the Marine Corps History Center, the National Archives, with knowledgeable veterans who had fought on Iwo Jima with the unit that raised the two flags on 23 February, in many books and articles about the battle and hundreds of visits to the memorial.
I happened to be at the memorial one day when sculptor Felix deWeldon also visited there, and I was able to ask him how he thought the myth began. Mr. deWeldon admitted he did not know. He threw his hands up and said, “Thirteen hands! Who needed thirteen, twelve were enough!”
My hope in 1999 was to erase this fiction of a 13th hand. Obviously, I was not successful.
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