was the commander of the Ira Hayes American Legion Post 84 in Sacaton at the time. Since the creation of the monument in 1988, the community has celebrated Hayes and the flag-raising at Iwo Jima ...

Ira Hayes, left, a Pima from Arizona, helped four fellow Marines and a Navy corpsman raise the second flag on Mount Suribachi, Japan." An archived version of the webpage showed that as recently ...

The deletion of the Iwo Jima flag-raising page — which was believed to have occurred because the webpage and photo emphasized the contributions of Pfc. Ira Hayes, a Pima Indian, in the Pacific ...