To see the flag today, follow McLaughlin down a ... “Only they know the details or reasons behind it.” Many of the Marines from Firdos Square moved on to other deployments.

Rougly 60 years later, Quantico came calling for the Firdos Square flag, too, but McLaughlin succeeded where Forrestal and the Marines at Mount Suribachi didn’t. He decided not to return the ...

The Marines hung a noose around the statue’s neck and dragged the statue around Firdos Square. That day marked the beginning of a war that was far from over and with an American flag covering a ...

But when Marines raised another flag, he was there to capture the image ... but it took the Marines only five days to reach the top of the eight-square-mile island's highest point, Mount Suribachi.

"Our history is important, but for Marines the flag raising image is not about ... battling about 20,000 Japanese defenders on the eight-square mile island. "To the individuals participating ...

More than 50 years later, the Rosenthal photograph would again inspire architects who designed Quantico’s National Museum of the Marine Corps. From the angle of the second flag being raised ...

When Anthony Stabile and other Marine Corps League members raise the flag above the restored Yorktowne ... the World War II monument in Continental Square, the Korean War statue near West Market ...