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.

上面画着五名士兵在升起斯里兰卡国旗，看上去像极了一幅二战时标志性的照片，1945年由5名美国海军陆战队员和1名海员在日本硫磺岛上升起了美国星条旗。

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James Bradley is the son of John Bradley, one of the men who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. He is the author of "Flags of our Fathers" and "Flyboys."

詹姆斯·布兰德利是约翰·布兰德利的儿子，他的父亲是其中一位将美国国旗插上硫磺岛的战士。

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But what turned Iwo Jima into legend was Joe Rosenthal's photograph of six American soldiers raising a flag on Mount Suribachi.

但是最终使硫磺岛战役成为传奇的，则是Joe Rosenthal拍摄的一张照片——六名美国士兵在硫磺岛折钵山山顶升起美国国旗。

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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.

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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.

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When he saw Joe Rosenthal's picture of the flag-raising in Iwo Jima he made a plaster model of the scene.

ECONOMIST: Felix de Weldon