World War II veteran Ted White, 85, died Dec. 28, 2008.
On February 23, 1945, he watched the raising of the famous flag on Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima. He was part of a Marine Corps scouting team that had climbed the mountain to check on the Japanese. They deemed it safe and came down.
After that, another group went up and raised a flag which was deemed too small. The second group went up and raised the flag which became the subject of the famous Joe Rosenthal photo.
Mr. White could see both flag raisings, but the significance of the event did not become apparent to him until after the war.
he was wounded in the knee later in March and returned to the states.
The Greatest Generation.
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