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Ira Hayes - The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism (Hardcover)
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Ira Hayes - The Akimel O'odham Warrior, World War II, and the Price of Heroism (Hardcover)
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The gripping, forgotten tale of Ira Hayes-a Native American icon
and World War II legend that spent the latter half of his life
haunted by being a war hero. IRA HAYES tells the story of Ira
Hamilton Hayes from the perspective of a Native American combat
veteran of the Vietnam generation. Hayes, along with five other
Marines, was captured in Joe Rosenthal's iconic photograph of
raising the stars and stripes on Mount Suribachi during the battle
for the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima. The photograph was the
inspiration and model for the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial in
Arlington. Between the time he helped raise that flag and his
death-and beyond-he was the subject of more newspaper columns than
any other Native person. He was hailed as a hero and maligned as a
chronic alcoholic unable to take care of himself. IRA HAYES will
explore these fluctuating views of Ira Hayes. It will reveal that
they were primarily the product of American misconceptions about
Native people, the nature of combat, and even alcoholism. Like most
surviving veterans of combat, Ira did not think of himself as a
heroic figure. There can be no doubt that Ira suffered from PTSD,
which is a compound of survivor's guilt, the shock of seeing death,
especially of one's friends, and the isolation brought on by
feeling that no one could understand what he had been through.
Ira's life has been a subject of two motion pictures and a
television drama. All these dramas sympathize with him, but
ultimately fail to see his binge drinking as his way of temporarily
escaping the melancholy, the rage he felt, his sense of betrayal,
and the sheer boredom of peacetime. IRA HAYES breaks apart the
complexities of Ira's short life in honor of all Native veterans
who have been to war in the service of the United States. This is
equally their story.
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