Book report: Flags of Our Fathers
The raising of the flag was the result of one the most gruesome battles in the Pacific Ocean during the World War II with numerous killed and injured soldiers. The five Marines, Rene Gagnon, Mike Strank, Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley and Harlon Block and one Navy Corps representative John Bradley became the main characters of both life and fiction events. Not all of the heroes survived the battle – Ira Hayes, Harlon Block and Franklin Sousley fell. All of them fought courageously and saved many lives. Strank, for example, being a Sergeant refused to proceed further, saying that the soldiers should ...
