Ira Hamilton Hayes A Navajo Icon Who Deserves Recognition

Some American Indians join as a way to protect their people and ancestral lands. Ira Hamilton Hayes was born on January 12, 1923. He came ... Click on Marsha's name for permission before using her poem. Dedicated to Corporal Ira Hamilton Hayes United States Marine Corps For Col. Tom McKenney, USMC. " ... Ira Hamilton Hayes Ira Hamilton Hayes. File:1000121202.jpg. birth. 1923 January 12th · USA Sacranton , Arizona. Dead. 1955 January 24 (age 32). Ira Hamilton Hayes (1923–1955) was an Akimel O'odham Indigenous American and a U.S. Marine who fought in World War II. Ira Hayes tells the story of Ira Hamilton Hayes from the perspective of a Native American combat veteran of the Vietnam generation. Hayes, along with five ... Ira Hamilton Hayes, participant in the famous flag raising on Iwo Jima, was a Pima Indian, born at Sacaton, Arizona, on 12 January 1923. Ira Hamilton Hayes was born Jan. 12, 1923, at Sacaton in the Gila River Indian Community south of Phoenix, Arizona. He was the oldest of ... Group 2: Ira Hayes. Ira Hamilton Hayes is a full blood Pima Native American and was born in Sacaton, Arizona, on the Pima. Reservation on Jan 12, 1923. His ... IRA HAMILTON HAYES-4698 The B-17 flying fortress, the “Sentimental Journey” performed four fly-overs for the parade, followed by six ... At the age of 19, he enlisted in the US Marine Corps Reserves and trained as a parachutist; he was promoted to the rank of corporal in 1945. On February 23, ...