Ira Hayes, a Native American Marine immortalized in the famous 1945 photograph of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, became a national hero overnight. But behind the image, he battled severe PTSD and alcoholism - arrested over 50 times before tragically freezing to d*ath in the Arizona desert in 1955. | LazBu
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On Feb. 23, 1945 Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian, helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima Island. WWII was raging in the Pacific and the photo rallied the troops and made Hayes a reluctant hero. He was a Marine. Patty Talahongva reports on how the Gila River Indian Community continues to honor him. | Indian Country Today
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"The Ballad of Ira Hayes" 2014 written by Peter La Farge, tells the tragic true story of Ira Hayes, a Pima Native American Marine who raised the flag at Iwo Jima but faced racism, PTSD, alcoholism, and neglect upon returning home, dying a forgotten hero in a ditch; Kris Kristofferson's, Gillian Welch's, and David Rawlings's version (from the Bitter Tears Revisited project) honors this legacy, focusing on the stark injustice and forgotten Native American experience behind the iconic photo, a them
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The Defense Department has removed a webpage celebrating Native American Ira Hayes, one of six Marines seen raising a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 in an iconic photo. It was reportedly one of several pages about minority service members erased from the site under President Trump’s anti-DEI mandate. | CBS Mornings
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