A Rear View Of The Iwo Jima Monument With Trees Women's T-Shirt

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This rear view of the Iwo Jima Monument, photographed through trees, shows the back sides of the men raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi during the World War II Battle of Iwo Jima. The monument, formally known as the United States Marine Corps Memorial, is adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery near Washington, DC. The large monument, which looks small from this rear perspective, depicts the six soldiers, five Marines and one Navy corpsman, who raised the American flag on that historic day in February 1945. The actual event was immortalized by journalist Joe Rosenthal in his Pulitzer Prize winning photograph, which in 1954 served as the basis for the new Marine Corps Memorial in Arlington, Virginia.

I enjoy photography and writing, and sometimes think of myself as a photojournalist. If there is a story to be told with a photograph, I tell it. As a longtime resident of Washington, DC, a lot of my photographs are of this area, and I enjoy writing in the description something about the shot -- it could be a short statement about an equestrian statue in the middle of a park, or a more intimate tale of the mausoleum where Abraham Lincoln's son, Willie, was entombed for the remaining three years of Lincoln's presidency after the boy's death. These photographs are contained in the aptly named "Washington DC" Collection. In addition to "WDC" there are eight other Collections on this page, and two of my favorites are "Paintings" and...