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Clint Eastwood39s adaptation of the non fiction book Flags of Our Fathers concerns the lives of the men in the famous picture of soldiers raising the American flag over Iwo Jima during that historic WWII battle. Battle scenes are intercut with footage of three of the soldiers played by Ryan Phillipe, Jesse Bradford, and Adam Beach who survived the battle going on a goodwill tour of the United States in order to sell war bonds. Many evening they are forced to reenact their famous pose, something each of them finds more and more difficult to do as they suffer from survivor39s guilt. Eastwood frames the story by having one of the men39s grown son Tom McCarthy interview his father39s old comrades in order to find out more about what happened to his father.
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