BBC is not the only source I found. I sourced them because they did not require a subscription. I found several articles on this topic like The NY Times, Washington Post among others. Need a subscription for these.
I'm not surprised at all that other publication drinking from the same trough would have similar AP articles and such. MY point is that I believe they were pushing a narrative, and showed such with the links I provided as well as the misdirection that was ran when they discussed the error code 404. I don't believe any of this is racist, but do believe there could also be in play the accomplishments as accomplishments without any qualifier such as DEI and such that taints the accomplishments as the labeling outside of any accomplishment with a qualifiers as though the accomplishment is not good enough on its own. I don't know that any of this is going on, but Charles Rogers accomplishments should stand on its own without the bigotry of lower expectations and only worthy should it be a black, hispanic, Asian or female.
So, I'm a bit familiar with the lives of the six people that lifted the "second flag" on Mount Surbachi. One of those that actually lived after the war, but died drunk was Ira Hayes. When the USA tried to raise money through bonds they counted on those that raised the flag to help. Initially Harlon Block was misidentified as one of the flag raisers. Harlon's mother had stated that she knew his behind as she had diapered it enough to know it. She was correct and Ira Hayes tracked a 1000 miles to give her the news meeting her in a field where she was working I seem to recall that is was her son in the picture. Ira was noted as a Pima native Indian by many publications as there were not a lot of indian enlistments. Out of memory I believe there are three buried in Arlington as I visited the graves of all as well as Audie Murphy whose site is right beside the tomb of the unknown soldier. Arlington is but another site that everyone should visit at least once...as well as the Arlington House. Here is a video I cropped a to learn a bit if unfamiliar about Ira Hayes. He and the three alive were paraded around as heroes to raise money for the war through bond...something they didn't feel comfortable doing.
The lives of those six were detailed in and the book is MUCH better than the movie
Normally I charge for this, but since we're all friends here I try to help out at times. I did a search for Ira and some site showed a 404 error, but was able to locate it in the Arlington website as well. Here is the URl I had a couple of decades ago on education with all kind of info on it. I dropped it a few years ago since I didn't have time to keep all the links current since authors or managers of the URLs I referenced them would move things. It was
www.indianaeducation.org. That domain at the time I realized would be worth something in the future, but Brad Jewell (Mr Hoops) paid for it and today that domain is $4000.00. Let's see if there is a desire to reduce the bigotry of low expectations or things are just bein g moved around...
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