[Terry Mross]

You need to watch FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS.

[A.A. Cunningham]

I've watched it and read the book of the same title as well as many other books and articles on the topic.

People that claim that Rosenthal's photo was staged can't explain why Genaust's film, which was shot simultaneously, wasn't staged or why Lowery's photo of the first flag raising wasn't staged. They can't explain why, if the photo was staged, Rosenthal almost missed taking it. Most of these "experts" have no idea why a second flag was even raised and what happened to the original.

For that matter, using the logic of the ignorant, the same claim could be made that every photo ever taken in combat was staged because a camera and photographer just happened to be present. Nonsense.

[X-spurt]

TM see my Post # 59, with link to interview with one of the “original” raisers.