{"id":31,"date":"2013-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/04\/13\/xpost-24-high-on-the-hill-suribachi\/"},"modified":"2013-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T00:00:00","slug":"xpost-24-high-on-the-hill-suribachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/04\/13\/xpost-24-high-on-the-hill-suribachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-24: High on the Hill “Suribachi”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I remembered an old song, as I was writing post-#23<\/a>, called “Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima”. It was sung by the 1930s-and-1940s Country-Western group “Sons of the Pioneers”, and wiki says it reached #4<\/a> on the Country charts.
It contains the following line:<\/div>\n
“High on the hill Suribachi…
<\/span>Flies Old Glory, and she always will…“<\/font><\/font><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
“Suribachi<\/strong>” is the name of the high hill that physically dominates Iwo Jima Island.<\/div>\n
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Mt. Suribachi from above. [Click to expand]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/span>\"Picture\"<\/a>Marines raising the flag
“high on the hill Suribachi”<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

The line in that song refers to the raising of the U.S. flag. Every American knows the photo (at right). These lyrics<\/a> thus make a ‘claim’ to Iwo Jima, proclaiming it “always will”<\/em> be U.S. soil.<\/p>\n

I’d assumed it was made a U.S. possession and remains one. <\/p>\n

<\/span>That’s incorrect. It turns out that Iwo Jima was a U.S. possession for a long time, but was ceremoniously returned to Japan in mid-1968. But, then, “High on the hill Suribachi flies Old Glory, and she will for…twenty-three years”<\/em> — That just wouldn’t have had as good a ring to it.\n<\/div>\n

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I remembered an old song, as I was writing post-#23, called “Stars and Stripes on Iwo Jima”. It was sung by the 1930s-and-1940s Country-Western group “Sons of the Pioneers”, and wiki says it reached #4 on the Country charts.It contains the following line: “High on the hill Suribachi…Flies Old Glory, and she always will…“ “Suribachi” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}