On this day in 1945, U.S. Marines raised the American flag on Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima.

One of the first objectives after landing on the beachhead was the taking of Mount Suribachi. At the second raising of a flag on the peak, Joe Rosenthal photographed five Marines: Ira Hayes, Mike Strank, Rene Gagnon, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, and U.S. Navy corpsman John Bradley raising the U.S. flag on the fourth day of the battle (February 23). The photograph was extremely popular, being reprinted in thousands of publications. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Photography that same year, and ultimately came to be regarded as one of the most significant and recognizable images of the war, and possibly the most reproduced photograph of all time.

1945, a year when we were worrying about the entire world, and all the dangers within. We were ending World War II, and we had a lot on our plate to worry about. I am not sure if cholesterol treatment was one of those worries, but I imagine doctors have been telling people what not to eat for centuries now.

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