When he saw Joe Rosenthal's picture of the flag-raising in Iwo Jima he made a plaster model of the scene.
That sculpture, designed by Felix de Weldon, was patterned after a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press image of the Feb. 23, 1945, flag-raising by Marines and a Navy Corpsman on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi.
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He made sculptures from life of three of the six men raising the flag.
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These six young men raising the flag came to symbolize all of America coming together to beat back a totalitarian aggressor.
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It drew on the past - the marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima - and so became a reaffirmation of who Americans believed they were.
Felix de Weldon's 1954 bronze depicts five Marines and a Navy Corpsman raising the flag on Iwo Jima's Mount Suribachi as Allied forces struggled to capture the Japanese-held island.
And it's clear that Islamists groups are far from raising the white flag in parts of northern Mali.
Mr Fraser can expect further opposition with the former Secretary of State for Scotland, Lord Forsyth, calling his plan a "ludicrous idea" which amounts to raising the white flag in the face of opposition from the SNP.
In 2012, Marina Silva was personally invited to be the only Brazilian to carry the Olympic flag at the opening of the London Olympics, raising eyebrows within the Brazilian government.
It depicts five soldiers hoisting the Sri Lankan flag, looking remarkably like the iconic photograph of five marines and a seaman raising Old Glory over Iwo Jima in 1945.
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