Correcting the old man

What follows is an email from Eli, correcting a few of my mistakes....

Since I love reading your blog and I check it almost daily I noticed a few errors in your thing about Ira Hayes....first of all this was mine and Seth's idea to do the presentation on Ira Hayes inspired by both reading the book, Flags of our Fathers. We were told to do something creative talking about Native Americans and their contributions to our military, and we decided to just talk about this story. Now, John Bradley did not take the picture, it was Joe Rosenthal who was an AP photographer and just happened in a 1/40th of a second capture that picture. When he sent the film off he didn't even know if he had taken any shots. John Bradley was a navy corpsman who was one of the six, not five, flag raisers. The first flagraising was done ceremoniously with the men posing and what not. Then, one of the marine commanders decided he wanted that flag to hold on to, so they sent another group to put a second flag up. They hoisted the second flag up the same time they took the first one down, and Joe Rosenthal just happened to capture that frame. He actually thought he had missed the kodak moment. Most people did not even realize that the six men who were in the photograph were part of the second flag raising, none of them were a part of the first. However, its images and not deeds sometimes that capture the public and that was surely the case here. I am sending you the slide show we did, a frustrating process with our internet connection and trying to download pictures and movies to put in here (none of the movie clips worked out) but I ended up learning how to use movie maker and had a lot of fun with it. Let me know if you got it and were able to open it. By the way, I have and always will think of you as my hero. I am very lucky to have both you and mom in my life and look up to the two of you very much. I love you.
Eli