Iwo Jima Vet's irked by Time magazine

[Hondo]

I also agree, I'd be a little "inked" by this... whats next?
My dad met Joe in he early 1960's when he worked
for the San Francisco Chronicle,
just glad Joe isn't here to see this

 

[dhermann1]

I Dunno

I dunno. I think they're making a point. They're suggesting that truly heroic measures need to be taken to save the earth. You can think what you want about the issue, but the Iwo Jima image is an American Icon. It has impact. I definitely don't think they're debasing or trivializing the heroic nature of the image. As a Vietnam era ex marine, I say lighten up.

 

[staggerwing]

With the utmost respect dhermann1, I'm glad my uncle, who was in the first wave of Marines to land on Iwo Jima, isn't around to see this. The absolute hell he experienced there affected him the rest of his life. In spite of earning a professional degree on the GI bill, he died in the early 90s of complications resulting from life-long alcoholism, broke and alone. I'd hate for him, and those still living, to see their service perverted in the name of this phoney global warming hooey.

 

[Hondo]

I don't have to "You can think what you want about the issue" fact remains, and you’re entitled to your opinion with respects, but there is something different with WWII from Vietnam.
My father was on Okinawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima and Yokohama with the Navy, met Joe Rosenthal on Iwo Jima, and had that follow up meeting in S.F. later.
Saw some of the bloodiest fighting, kamikazes attacks.
You can not compare the two wars.

 

[AmateisGal]

Hmm. While I see the point Time magazine is trying to make, I think they could have done so in a different manner. After reading the book, Flags of Our Fathers and realizing the hell those Marines went through on Iwo Jima, I'm not in favor of messing with that photograph in any shape or form. My two cents.

 

[J. M. Stovall]

They should have just hired an illustrator to create an image similar to that to get he point across, without actually altering the original photo. That probably would have drawn very little flak. But maybe they were just looking to get attention.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

It is not in the best taste to take any kind of sacred national icon and use it for other purposes, even if the purpose is a good one. Especially when there are still people around who were a part of that experience.

Global warming is a serious subject, not hooey, whether we caused it or not. It is a scary and serious issue.

karol

 

[staggerwing]

It is not in the best taste to take any kind of sacred national icon and use it for other purposes, even if the purpose is a good one. Especially when there are still people around who were a part of that experience.

Global warming is a serious subject, not hooey, whether we caused it or not. It is a scary and serious issue.

karol

While this probably gets close to the line in the sand labeled "politics," yea, it is hooey. Many climate fluctuations have been identified during the course of recorded history, and many dire predictions (mostly about the coming ice age) have been made during my lifetime (50-odd years) and turned out to be just wrong. The only scary thing going on here is alarmists like Al Gore capitalizing on the random natural fluctuations noted before for personal gain and aggrandizment. What scares me is big Al getting laws passed to ration our fuel and air conditioning - he of course will be excepted because he's an "important leader." I say hooey.

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Let us hope and pray that you are right -- and that we are not betting our grandchildren's future on our need to keep consuming as we are doing now.

karol

 

[Hondo]

I whole heartily agree with staggerwing, feel the same way, I worry about future generations; any big change will occur 100 to 200 years.
It’s my feeling that one country won’t make much difference; there is an urgent need to stop using oil, fossil fuel.

Let us hope and pray that you are right -- and that we are not betting our grandchildren's future on our need to keep consuming as we are doing now.

karol

 

[K.D. Lightner]

Probably more like 50 years. It won't matter to me, I will be deader than a mackeral by then, but my little great nephews and niece will be in the middle of their lives with children and grandkids of their own.

Back to the topic, I think there are better ways to present the problems and possibilities of earth ecology without linking it to Iwo Jima. I also read Flags of our Fathers and would not want to utilize that famous photo and battle to proselytize anything, no matter how urgent.

karol