The United States Marine Corps War Memorial (Iwo Jima Memorial) is a national memorial located in Arlington County, Virginia. The memorial was dedicated in 1954 to all Marines who have given their lives in defense of the United States since 1775. The war memorial was inspired by the iconic 1945 photograph of six Marines raising a U.S. flag atop Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II taken by Associated Press combat photographer Joe Rosenthal.[1]
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The Marine Corps War Memorial is featured in Crypt of Civilization.
It was introduced in 2 days after people when the 6 bronze heroes of the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War 2 still raise the American flag. The show gave information that the memorial was based on a photographic image of heroism that is so moving that people wanted it to be immortalized not in fading celluloid but in bronze. After people, no one would remember the battle or protect the monument.
Marine Corps War Memorial after 6 months, with the shredded flag.
In 6 months after people, while the Iwo Jima Marines remain undamaged, the polyester flag was subject to fading in the sun. Previously, the flag would have been replaced every month by an honor guard, but now, this flag will continue to fly until it is simply too worn out to continue its duty.
The show then gave information that in 1961, John F. Kennedy directed that the 190 foot banner on the 60 foot flag pole should be flown day and night forever to help remember the courage and sacrifice at Iwo Jima. After a half year of sun, wind, and rain, the flag is tattered. All it took was one gusty afternoon to blow the flag away, and the presidential proclamation is overwritten.
The statue’s fate - or lack thereof - is shown in 300 years after people when the bronze of Iwo Jima marines at the Marine Corps War Memorial continues to remain recognizable and still strain to raise a flag that has been gone for centuries, though nature has lent her hand by having some trailing vines grow on the pole, hanging down as if to mimic the old flag. While the environment continues to change around it, this monument to one of World War II's defining moments will remain.
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