Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima

The image itself is of five United States Marines and a U.S Navy Corpsman raising the flag of the United States a top Mount Suribachi during the battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. (During the Second World War.)

My opinion on this image is that it represents many things in the eyes of different people. For American's, it may give them a sense of pride, whereas for myself, I don't feel any emotion towards the image. In my opinion, it represents the teamwork which was used to pull the flag up, as well as unity because it's a mixture of American Soldiers who managed to get the flag up. But apart from that, I feel no emotional attachment to this picture, despite how famous it became in the year that it was printed.