PRrag.com remembers Joe Rosenthal

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Joe Rosenthal, the Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist who captured the flag raising at Iwo Jima despite being told he was too blind for combat duty in World War II, died Sunday. He was 94.

Mr. Rosenthal captured one of the photography age's most treasured--and perhaps the most reprinted--images when, in a fraction of a second, he caught five marines and a sailor raising the American Flag over the disputed Japanese island on February 23, 1945.

According to the New York Times, the famous photograph was printed in 3-5 million war-bond posters during that era and featured on a stamp commemorating the Marine Corps. The photograph was also immortalized when it was turned into the Marine Corps War Memorial.

He was not allowed in the military, but he earned a salute from journalists everywhere.

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