Check out this thread in GD:

[JeffR]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1951853

[babylonsister]

1. 94 and he died of natural causes,

not too shabby!
I remember visiting DC w/my grandma when I was all of about 13. Of all the many buildings, monuments, etc., that we saw, the most impressive to me was Iwo Jima. That's a nice legacy.

[JeffR]

2. I felt the same way about the monument, babylonsister

You can only wonder what was going through his mind when he shot that photo.

[priller]

3. From the article:

"Out of the corner of my eye, I had seen the men start the flag up. I swung my camera and shot the scene. That is how the picture was taken, and when you take a picture like that, you don't come away saying you got a great shot. You don't know."

"Millions of Americans saw this picture five or six days before I did, and when I first heard about it, I had no idea what picture was meant."

He recalled that days later, when a colleague congratulated him on the picture, he thought he meant another, posed shot he had taken later that day, of Marines waving and cheering at the base of the flag.

[JeffR]

4. I liked this quote too:

He liked to call himself "a guy who was up in the big leagues for a cup of coffee at one time."