{"id":15398,"date":"2016-06-29T15:37:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=15398"},"modified":"2016-06-29T15:37:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T20:37:10","slug":"usps-employee-identified-as-one-of-the-six-men-raising-flag-on-iwo-jima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2016\/06\/29\/usps-employee-identified-as-one-of-the-six-men-raising-flag-on-iwo-jima\/","title":{"rendered":"USPS Employee Identified As One Of The Six Men Raising Flag On Iwo Jima"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-twentyfourteen-full-width  wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IwoJimaEmployee_large-story.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IwoJimaEmployee_large-story.jpg 900w, http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IwoJimaEmployee_large-story-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IwoJimaEmployee_large-story-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/link.usps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IwoJimaEmployee_large-story-120x80.jpg 120w\" alt=\"A Marine Corps image highlights Pfc. Howard Schultz, second from left, in the Feb. 23, 1945, flag-raising on Iwo Jima.\" width=\"471\" height=\"314\" \/><\/h6>\n<div class=\"post-thumbnail link-fullfeature\">\n<h6 class=\"link-caption\">A Marine Corps image highlights Pfc. Harold Schultz, second from left, in the<br \/>\nFeb. 23, 1945, flag-raising on Iwo Jima.<\/h6>\n<\/div>\n<p>USPS News Link &#8211; The Marine Corps has identified Harold Schultz, a longtime Postal Service employee who died in 1995, as one of the six men in the iconic World War II photograph of the flag raising on Iwo Jima.<\/p>\n<p>The Marines began investigating the photo this year after researchers raised questions about the identities of the men in the image.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation determined the man second from left was Schultz, not John Bradley as previously believed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur history is important to us, and we have a responsibility to ensure it\u2019s right,\u201d said Marine Corps General Robert Neller, who<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marines.mil\/News\/News-Display\/Article\/810457\/usmc-statement-on-iwo-jima-flagraisers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>led the investigation<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Pfc. Schultz, a Detroit native who enlisted at age 17, was seriously injured during fighting on the Japanese island. Bradley, a Navy hospital corpsman, had been involved in a flag raising hours before the famous photo was taken.<\/p>\n<p>Schultz received a Purple Heart for his heroism in 1946. He got a postal job in Los Angeles about a year later and sorted mail until he retired in 1981, according to news reports.<\/p>\n<p>Additional information on Schultz\u2019s career wasn\u2019t available.<\/p>\n<p>Dezreen MacDowell, 54, his stepdaughter,<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4381886\/iwo-jima-harold-schultz-misidentified-world-war-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>told Time<\/em><\/a><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>that Schultz knew he was in the photograph but never wanted to make a big deal about it.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018My God, Harold, you were a hero,\u2019\u201d MacDowell recalled. \u201cAnd he responded, \u2018No, not really, I was a Marine.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Marine Corps image highlights Pfc. Harold Schultz, second from left, in the Feb. 23, 1945, flag-raising on Iwo Jima. USPS News Link &#8211; The Marine Corps has identified Harold Schultz, a longtime Postal Service employee who died in 1995, as one of the six men in the iconic World War II photograph of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usps-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15401,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15398\/revisions\/15401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}