Flags of our Fathers

In this portion of the book that James Bradley describes growing up having his dad as a father. He tells us that he had no idea of his involvement on Iwo Jima while growing up at all. In fact his father didn't even tell his own wife about what he did in the war. It was only after the death of his father did he learn that he had taken part in one of the bloodiest battles in all of World War II. That his father in fact had won a medal for his bravery in combat and that he had sustained a quite severe wound while in battle. What amazed him the most was the fact that his father had been one of the five men who raised the American flag on that historic day. He talks about how when he was in school he would learn all about these men and how brave they were yet no one knew, not even James, that the man holding the base of the flag was in fact his father.