When I watched this film many years ago, I still didn't quite understand why Ira did not agree with her hero status, and would rather go back to the battlefield than cooperate with the fundraising parade... The central idea of this film is also here...
There were no heroes. Soldiers fight for their country, but die for their comrades. Everyone is such an ordinary person. All heroes are man-made.
At the inauguration ceremony of the Marine Corps War Memorial, Hank's mother did not receive the invitation, because the military thought that Hank was not a hero because he did not appear in the photo... This is a great irony, but the truth is that Hank put the first flag Mount Oriba is inserted. It was the military leader at that time who ordered his subordinates to replace the flag in order to collect this flag, and that's the classic photo... A mistake turned these soldiers into heroes, and heroes into soldiers.
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