Flag Raising On Iwo Jima, Joe Rosenthal, 1945 t is but a speck of an island 760 miles south of Tokyo, a volcanic pile that blocked the Allies’ march toward Japan. The Americans needed Iwo Jima as an air base, but the Japanese had dug in. U.S. troops landed on February 19, 1945, beginning a month of fighting that claimed the lives of 6,800 Americans and 21,000 Japanese. On the fifth day of battle, the Marines captured Mount ÂSuribachi.Immersions (Piss Christ), Andres Serrano, 1987 Andres Serrano said he did not intend his 1987 photograph of a crucifix submerged in his own urine to offend; indeed, when it was first displayed in galleries, no one protested. But in 1989, after Piss Christ was exhibited in Virginia, it attracted the attention of an outspoken pastor and, soon after, of Congress. Angry that Serrano had received funding from the National Endowment for the ArtsThe Burning Monk, Malcolm Browne, 1963 Buddhist Priest protesting during the Vietnam war, when the U.S is bombing and destroying towns and killing people for those who are helping the North kill the Americans.
