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Photo Credit: The Marine Corps War Memorial is based on the iconic photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal of six soldiers raising the American flag at Iwo Jima on February 23, 1945. The photo used in this post was generously shared with Creative Commons licensing by Mark Goebel via Flickr
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