Orac<\/a> has more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sixty years ago today, first one, then another (see picture) US flag was raised at the top of Mt Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. For over a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10819,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/potpourri_for_a_monday_on.html","url_meta":{"origin":7479,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri for a Monday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Jun-07 7:25am","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: DOF presents a very nice article on getting the most bang for the buck in various efforts to stop global warming.\u00a0 Worth a read. Iwo Jima is...","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":41705,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/13\/kay-in-dc-iwo-jima-memorial.html","url_meta":{"origin":7479,"position":1},"title":"Kay in DC: Iwo Jima Memorial","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 13-Apr-14 1:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Marine Corps Memorial at Arllington National Cemetary. The first pic was on the bus, where it got some lens glare, but Kay got a couple of good shots from the ground. #KayinDC \u00a0\ufeffIn album 2014-04-13 View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Kay%2BDC%2B2014-04-13%2BIwo%2BJima%2B3.jpg.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9483,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/28\/let_it_burn.html","url_meta":{"origin":7479,"position":2},"title":"Let it burn","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 28-Jun-06 6:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"I consider myself a pretty patriotic fellow.\u00a0 I love my country, I admire the principles under which it was founded and operates.\u00a0 I do think we have something very...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9837,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/24\/potpourri_for_300_again_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":7479,"position":3},"title":"Potpourri for $300, again, Alex","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Oct-06 6:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"Bits and pieces. While Amazon has been more than a bit overzealous with patent suits in the past (\"One Click\" anyone?), IBM basically walking in and saying, \"Nice business you...","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging & Internet"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging & Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":28740,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/02\/mike-kelly-is-a-dolt-religious-freedom-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":7479,"position":4},"title":"Mike Kelly is a Dolt (Religious Freedom Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 2-Aug-12 1:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, this is hard, Mike (R-Penn.), because most of your blather below is fact-free posturing. \u00a0But let's look at your fabulous press release of yesterday. Washington, D.C.\u00a0\u2013Representative Mike Kelly led a GOP Freshman Class press conference today marking day one of the controversial HHS mandate, which will require all non-exempt\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Church & State"","block_context":{"text":"Church & State","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/church-state"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/iwo-jima.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/iwo-jima.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/iwo-jima.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":31465,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/23\/the-case-of-the-disappearing-island.html","url_meta":{"origin":7479,"position":5},"title":"The Case of the Disappearing Island!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Nov-12 11:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Remarkably enough, it seems not to be a rising sea level thing, but a cartographic error thing.\u00a0 Embedded Link Pacific island 'does not exist' A South Pacific island shown on marine charts and world maps as well as on Google Maps and on Google Earth, is proven not to exist,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![](\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/iwo.jpg\")
Sixty years ago today, first one, then another (see picture) US flag was raised at the top of Mt Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.<\/p>\n