>Mr McPhatter, who went on to serve in Vietnam and rose to the
>rank of lieutenant commander in the US navy, even had a part
>in the raising of the flag. "The man who put the first flag up
>on Iwo Jima got a piece of pipe from me to put the flag up
>on," he says. That, too, is absent from the film.


Is he saying that he actually raised one of the flags or that he handed a piece of pipe to someone who did? When I read that part I assumed he was saying that he should've been in the movie handing somebody a piece of pipe.
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