We all have mothers. We're all human. Why does this have to be?


Rene Arthur Gagnon (March 07, 1925 – October 12, 1979) was one of the U.S. Marines immortalized by Joe Rosenthal's famous World War II photograph Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima. Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley with Ron Powers. May 2000. P.241- after firing his rifle for the first time and killing a Japanese soldier on Iwo Jima