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Analysis Of The Movie Flags Of Our Fathers
Flags of Our Fathers is a war movie that tells a story about the 1945 battle of Iwo Jima from an American viewpoint. The movie centers on the five Marines and one Navy Corpsman who were involved in raising the American flag on the island’s Mount Suribachi, and the aftermath that the war had on their lives thereafter. The men who were apart of the flag raising were regarded as heroes, although three of them were later killed; and the other three were shipped back to the United States to headline the story behind the photograph and sell war

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