Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima is a historic photograph taken on February 23, 1945. There are six Flag Raisers on the famous Iwo Jima photo. Four in the front line and two in back. The front four are (left to right) Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley and Harlon Block. The back two are Michael Strank (behind Sousley) and Rene Gagnon (behind Bradley). Strank, Block and Sousley would die shortly afterwards. Bradley, Hayes and Gagnon became national heroes. http://www.iwojima.com/
Human Rights Violations committed by John McCain personally, over the course of 25 years in the state legislature and federal senate introduced and arranged for the enforcement of unethical and constitutionally unlawful legislations which brutally displaced thousands of Navajo farmers onto a Nuclear Waste Dump, Church's Rock, New Mexico to live after brutalizing them for two decades in peaceful resistance.
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Marsha Monestersky for the UN Commission on Human Rights and Women Enacting Change at the UN "The forcible relocation of over 10,000 (Dineh) Navajo people is a tragedy of genocide and injustice that will be a blot on the conscience of this country for many generations."
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Educated in government schools, Navajo children were forbidden to speak their native language and were taught English. Native Americans have served in the US Military since the American revolution, have the highest rate of military service of any other ethnic group in the US.
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Ira Hayes was born January 12, 1923 in Sacaton, Arizona, and died January 24, 1955 in Bapchule, Arizona. Ira Hayes was a Pima Indian. When he enlisted in the Marine Corps, he had hardly ever been off the Reservation. His Chief told him to be an “Honorable Warrior” and bring honor upon his family. Ira was a dedicated Marine. Quiet and steady, he was admired by his fellow Marines who fought alongside him in three Pacific battles.
When Ira learned that President Roosevelt wanted him and the other survivors to come back to the US to raise money on the 7th Bond Tour, he was horrified.
To Ira, the heroes of Iwo Jima, those deserving honor, were his “good buddies” who died there. At the White House, President Truman told Ira, “You are an American hero.” But Ira didn’t feel pride. As he later lamented, “How could I feel like a hero when only five men in my platoon of 45 survived, when only 27 men in my company of 250 managed to escape death or injury?”
The Bond Tour was an ordeal for Ira. He couldn’t understand or accept the adulation . . . “It was supposed to be soft duty, but I couldn’t take it. Everywhere we went people shoved drinks in our hands and said ‘You’re a Hero!’ We knew we hadn’t done that much but you couldn’t tell them that.”
National media's failure to inform the public about the U.S.
government human rights violations against and forced relocation and systematic genocide of the Dine'h (Navajo) at Black Mesa, Arizona. Forcing any group of people from their homelands onto land that is contaminated by radiation as high as 100 times the maximum safe level can be called by no other name than genocide. The fact that the U.S. government knows that the land
is contaminated and STILL mandates that area as the only alternative for the Dine'h to live is a planned act. Therefore, the only proper term for this willful murder of First Americans is Systematic Genocide. The fact that the national media refuses to print a single word about these crimes against the Dine'h and
willfully remains silent is complicity in those crimes.
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Human Rights Violations committed by John McCain personally, over the course of 25 years in the state legislature and federal senate introduced and arranged for the enforcement of unethical and constitutionally unlawful legislations which brutally displaced thousands of Navajo farmers onto a Nuclear Waste Dump, Church's Rock, New Mexico to live after brutalizing them for two decades in peaceful resistance.
http://www.cain2008.org/
Marsha Monestersky for the UN Commission on Human Rights and Women Enacting Change at the UN "The forcible relocation of over 10,000 (Dineh) Navajo people is a tragedy of genocide and injustice that will be a blot on the conscience of this country for many generations."
http://acsa2000.net/
Educated in government schools, Navajo children were forbidden to speak their native language and were taught English. Native Americans have served in the US Military since the American revolution, have the highest rate of military service of any other ethnic group in the US.
http://
Ira Hayes was born January 12, 1923 in Sacaton, Arizona, and died January 24, 1955 in Bapchule, Arizona. Ira Hayes was a Pima Indian. When he enlisted in the Marine Corps, he had hardly ever been off the Reservation. His Chief told him to be an “Honorable Warrior” and bring honor upon his family. Ira was a dedicated Marine. Quiet and steady, he was admired by his fellow Marines who fought alongside him in three Pacific battles.
When Ira learned that President Roosevelt wanted him and the other survivors to come back to the US to raise money on the 7th Bond Tour, he was horrified.
To Ira, the heroes of Iwo Jima, those deserving honor, were his “good buddies” who died there. At the White House, President Truman told Ira, “You are an American hero.” But Ira didn’t feel pride. As he later lamented, “How could I feel like a hero when only five men in my platoon of 45 survived, when only 27 men in my company of 250 managed to escape death or injury?”
The Bond Tour was an ordeal for Ira. He couldn’t understand or accept the adulation . . . “It was supposed to be soft duty, but I couldn’t take it. Everywhere we went people shoved drinks in our hands and said ‘You’re a Hero!’ We knew we hadn’t done that much but you couldn’t tell them that.”
National media's failure to inform the public about the U.S.
government human rights violations against and forced relocation and systematic genocide of the Dine'h (Navajo) at Black Mesa, Arizona. Forcing any group of people from their homelands onto land that is contaminated by radiation as high as 100 times the maximum safe level can be called by no other name than genocide. The fact that the U.S. government knows that the land
is contaminated and STILL mandates that area as the only alternative for the Dine'h to live is a planned act. Therefore, the only proper term for this willful murder of First Americans is Systematic Genocide. The fact that the national media refuses to print a single word about these crimes against the Dine'h and
willfully remains silent is complicity in those crimes.
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http://www.iwojima.com/
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