OurTow Pr Volume: 1 Number: 6 • March 2020 75th Anniversary of Iwo Jima Victory What’s InsIde By Miss Linda, Columnist • Councilman’s Corner ���������������� Page 4 Seventy-five years brought the larger flag, the • Mayor’s Message ���������������������� Page 4 ago on February 23, Marine didn’t reach the top • Memorials ��������������������������������� Page 5 1945, the United States of Mount Suribachi before Marines raised the the picture was taken. After • Community Calendar ��������������� Page 6 American Flag on top of the war, he came back • Retired and Ready to Chat ������� Page 7 Mount Suribachi during home and lived in Edison, • Seniors �������������������������������������� Page 8 the Battle of Iwo Jima, NJ until his death. • Students ��������������������������������� Page 16 Japan, near the end of There has been a lot • Crossword ������������������������������� Page 17 World War II. of controversy about this • Moments with Miss Linda ������� Page 22 This classic photo- photo– many historians graph, taken by Mr. and media outlets over Featuring Joe Rosenthal, froze the past seventy-five years a moment of time in have claimed that the photo American history. Mr. was staged. After speaking Rosenthal, an Associated to one of the men who were Press photographer who there that day, a man who had covered the Battle gave his life to protect our of Iwo Jima, heard that country, it is pretty clear Marines were heading that the photo is not a up the Mount Suribachi. hoax. I would like to send He decided to make the my gratitude to the Marine Dunellen/Green Brook See Page 13 climb and see what was that reminded me of this Reminder going on. And then it very special anniversary, happened––a moment Photo taken by photographer Joe Rosenthal at Mount Suribachi in Iwo Jima, Japan, Police Officer O’Neil, who daylight savings that will never be following the U.S. Marine Victory during WWII currently serves with the forgotten. Mr. Rosenthal reported that he of the six Marines who climbed up Mount Dunellen P. D. March 8 could see the sight of “Old Glory” on top Suribachi in 1945. In 2002, the Marine was Please take the time and look up the turn Clocks Forward of Mount Suribachi from miles away. The 87 years old. Recalling the battle, the Marine history of this battle. Don’t let the sacrifice 1 hour American Flag set off whistles, gunfire, and told had told me that, initially, he and the five of these American soldiers ever be forgotten. celebrations. Despite the American victory Marines had planned to use a very small flag. For the Marines and every soldier, men and Online in Iwo Jima, the fighting would continue Then, it was HIM who shouted to the others, women, from the Army, Marines, Navy, Check out for more than a month, becoming one of the saying, “I have a larger flag! I’ll get it.” He Coast Guard, and the Air Force, we stand bloodiest battles of the Pacific War. ran down Mount Suribachi. Once he was together for the red, white and blue. 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