Flags of our Fathers

[covan]

Paid $5.50 for the matinee. Asked about the senior citizen discount and they said $5.50 was as low as the price would go.

Definitely worth the $5.50 though.

Same here about being the first movie I've been to since _We Were Soldiers Once_.

[b3196]

Best movie I have seen in a long time
Bob K

[Packo]

Yep,

$3 for the matinee. Didn't get to go. Decided to watch my Panthers lose to Cinci and the Steelers lose to the Foulcons. Bad day in sports.

Seeing the reviews on here....definately sometime this week.

Pack

[b3196]

Paco
Serious sand storms at the end......If Deb goes with you, make sure she has plenty of kleenix.
Bob K

[Packo]

Probably for me right? I had a feelin' it would be a tough go but just feel compelled to see it. Gotta get an evening here this week before Deb's other sister gets in town Saturday, that Deb isn't seeing patients. Hopefully Thrusday.

Pack

[locksly]

Glad you liked it.

[Packo]

Finally got to see this movie last night. About all I can say is that it was one of the most powerful movies I've ever seen. Caused some sleep disturbances for me last night but if you have not seen it.....the sleep disturbances are worth it. I remember one movie "critic" bad mouthing the movie and saying, "This is not Saving Private Ryan". I agree....this is a TRUE story. It followed the book very closely except where you really find out what happened to Iggy and others. Eastwood spared the audiance having to see the horrible atrocities the Japanese did to our Marines they captured. Most were the same the Vietnamese did to our people. Must be an Asian thing. Or, Eastwood didn't want the public to see how sick the Japanese were. Either way, I kept waiting for it, and it didn't happen, and you know, I'm glad. I would hope Eastwood would get best director and the guy from Windtalkers who played Ira Hayes, would both get Academy Awards. Doubt it will happen....Eastwood is not Spielberg and the guy playing Hayes, is not Hanks.

Everyday I work on Parris Island I pass a nice replica of the Iwo Monument. I have always felt something in my heart when passing it....I will pass it with even more reverance from now on.

SEMPER FI TO ALL MARINES OUT THERE PAST AND PRESENT!

Pack

[Jerry D]

The Ballad Of Ira Hayes Lyrics
Written by Peter LaFarge Recorded by Johnny Cash on 3/5/64


Ira Hayes,
Ira Hayes

[CHORUS:]
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Gather round me people there's a story I would tell
About a brave young Indian you should remember well
From the land of the Pima Indian
A proud and noble band
Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land

Down the ditches for a thousand years
The water grew Ira's peoples' crops
'Till the white man stole the water rights
And the sparklin' water stopped

Now Ira's folks were hungry
And their land grew crops of weeds
When war came, Ira volunteered
And forgot the white man's greed

[CHORUS:]
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill,
Two hundred and fifty men
But only twenty-seven lived to walk back down again

And when the fight was over
And when Old Glory raised
Among the men who held it high
Was the Indian, Ira Hayes

[CHORUS:]
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Ira returned a hero
Celebrated through the land
He was wined and speeched and honored; Everybody shook his hand

But he was just a Pima Indian
No water, no crops, no chance
At home nobody cared what Ira'd done
And when did the Indians dance

[CHORUS:]
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Then Ira started drinkin' hard;
Jail was often his home
They'd let him raise the flag and lower it
like you'd throw a dog a bone!

He died drunk one mornin'
Alone in the land he fought to save
Two inches of water in a lonely ditch
Was a grave for Ira Hayes

[CHORUS:]
Call him drunken Ira Hayes
He won't answer anymore
Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian
Nor the Marine that went to war

Yeah, call him drunken Ira Hayes
But his land is just as dry
And his ghost is lyin' thirsty
In the ditch where Ira died