U.S. Reps. Greg Stanton, Yassamin Ansari call for reinstatement of 2 Arizona tribal service stories
U.S. Reps. Greg Stanton and Yassamin Ansari called for the Department of Defense to reinstate two Arizona tribal military service member stories to their website.
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PHOENIX — U.S. Reps. Greg Stanton and Yassamin Ansari on Monday called for the Department of Defense to reinstate two Arizona tribal military service member stories to the department’s website.
Stanton and Ansari called for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to reinstate Pima/Akimel O’odham’s Marine Ira Hayes and Hopi Army Specialist Lori Ann Piestewa to the DoD’s website, according to a press release.
The news comes following the Pentagon facing criticism for the removal and restoring of military members and other historic mentions from the DoD website as part of a so-called DEI purge.
In a letter sent on Monday, Stanton and Ansari said Hayes and Piestewa’s stories have yet to be restored.
“We must never forget the sacrifices made by Native American veterans and service members throughout our nation’s history. Native Americans have continuously served at the highest levels per capita than any other group in the United States,” the letter says.
Hayes was one of six Marines who raised the flag at Iwo Jima during World War II in 1945. Piestewa was a U.S. Army soldier who was killed while serving in the Iraq War in 2003. Piestewa was the first Native American woman soldier to die in combat.
In 2008, Piestewa Peak, a prominent mountain in Phoenix, was named in her honor.
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That because your infected and can’t see past your spite.
No, the famous flag-raising on Iwo Jima was not staged, but there were two separate flag-raisings on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945.
The first flag-raising involved a smaller flag and was done earlier in the day. This was witnessed by many Marines on the island, boosting morale. However, military commanders wanted a larger flag that could be seen more clearly, so a second, larger flag was raised later that day.
The iconic photograph taken by Joe Rosenthal captured this second flag-raising. Some people mistakenly thought it was staged because Rosenthal did not capture the first flag-raising and because of how perfectly timed the shot appeared. However, Rosenthal later clarified that he simply snapped the photo at the right moment without any prior setup.
So while the decision to replace the flag was planned, the photo itself was not staged—it was a real, spontaneous moment.
Janet unlawfully renamed Squaw Peak.