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When  Raymond Jacobs died in California at 82 years of age in 2008, and Charles Charles W. Lindberg of Richfield died a few months before at 86, 

we thought that was the end of the guys who raised the flag on Iwo Jima

, before the re-enactment made famous by the Joe Rosenthal photo.

So we were delighted to hear this week -- thanks to the Internet -- that "Giz" Maxwell will be spending this Memorial Day weekend very much alive. Though he wasn't in either of the two famous photos, he was in the patrol that raised the flag, his granddaughter, Susan Davis, writes.

And he is in a picture Joe Rosenthal took a few minutes later.

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We were delighted to hear this week -- thanks to the Internet -- that 'Giz' Maxwell will be spending this Memorial Day weekend very much alive. Though he wasn't in either of the two famous photos, he was in the patrol that raised the flag.

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