<P> Starting in 1951, de Weldon was commissioned to design a memorial to the Marine Corps . It took de Weldon and hundreds of his assistants three years to finish it . Hayes, Gagnon, and Bradley, posed for de Weldon, who used their faces as a model . The three Marine flag raisers who did not survive the battle were sculpted from photographs . </P> <P> The flag - raising Rosenthal (and Genaust) photographed was the replacement flag / flagstaff for the first flag / flagstaff that was raised on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945 . There was some resentment from former Marines of the original 40 - man patrol that went up Mount Suribachi including by those involved with the first flag - raising, that they did not receive the recognition they deserved . These included: Staff Sgt. Lou Lowery, who took the first photos of the first flag flying over Mt . Suribachi; Charles W. Lindberg, who helped tie the first American flag to the first flagpole on Mount Suribachi (and who was, until his death in June 2007, one of the last living persons depicted in either flag - flying scene), who complained for several years that he helped to raise the flag and "was called a liar and everything else . It was terrible" (because of all the recognition and publicity over and directed to the replacement flag - raisers and that flag - raising); and Raymond Jacobs, photographed with the patrol commander around the base of the first flag flying over Mt . Suribachi, who complained until he died in 2008 that he was still not recognized by the Marine Corps by name as being the radioman in the photo . </P> <P> The original Rosenthal photograph is currently in the possession of Roy H. Williams, who bought it from the estate of John Faber, the official historian for the National Press Photographers Association, who had received it from Rosenthal . Both flags (from the first and second flag - raisings) are now located in the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia . </P> <P> Ira Hayes, following the war, was plagued with depression brought on by survivor guilt and became an alcoholic . His tragic life and death in 1955 at the age of 32 were memorialized in the 1961 motion picture The Outsider, starring Tony Curtis as Hayes, and the folk song "The Ballad of Ira Hayes", written by Peter LaFarge and recorded by Johnny Cash in 1964 . Bob Dylan later covered the song, as did Kinky Friedman . According to the song, after the war: </P>

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