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Originally Posted by DeltAlum
OK, I suppose this is a matter of language. Fact is, though, that the picture is not of the original raising of the flag.
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Quite true, but it's an important matter of language. As LaneSig points out, use of the words "staging" or "re-staging" implies that the picture was posed. In light of the historical confusion about this, I was just concerned that calling the raising of the second flag a "restaging" is not only inaccurate, but perpetuates the confusion.
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My dad is a (European Theatre) WWII veteran. I'm going home to see him next weekend. I wonder if he would like to see the movie. He's not in good health -- and members of what Tom Brokaw calls "The Greatest Generation" are dying at an increasingly rapid rate. We owe them a lot.
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Originally Posted by jon1856
For those who still can, if you have a father, grandfather or uncle of that generation or mine, sit down with them while you can. That is something I am sorry I can not do now.
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My dad as well, DeltAlum, although he is gone now.
But we never could get more than the smallest bits of information out of him about the war. He kept some momentos -- the backpack that I carried to school everyday was his army rucksack, and we always had framed on the wall a picture of a German village that his interpreter painted for him -- but other than teaching me little bits of German, he simply wouldn't talk about the war, certainly not in any detail at all. After he died, we found some letters that shed a little bit of light on what life must have been like for him, but that is it.
My experience is that WWII vets fall into two camps -- those that love to talk about it and that keep in touch with their old comrades and those, like my father, who barely acknowledge that it happened.