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i12bent:

Ira Hayes, war hero, Indian rights activist and ordinary man immortalized in Joe Rosenthal’s Iwo Jima flag raising photo, and - post mortem - in Peter La Farge’s song “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” - died on this day in 1955 in the aftermath of a drunken bar room brawl…

Johnny Cash: The Ballad of Ira Hayes — from Bitter Tears: Ballads of the American Indian, 1964

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    I was talking about Ira Hayes today

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