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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/block.html (1269 words)

	Cpl Harlon H. Block - Iwo Jima Flag Raiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harlon Henry Block was born at Yorktown, Texas, on 6 November 1924, the son of Edward Frederick Block and Ada Belle Block.
		Block was assigned to the Parachute Replacement Battalion at the same camp.
		Harlon Block is buried beside the Iwo Jima Monument in Harlingen, Texas.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/6350/block.htm (481 words)

	Iwo Jima - Recent Press
		But this is the story of the Block family, a photo misidentification and its bizarre resolution, as reconstructed by the son of the longest living survivor of the Iwo Jima flag-raisers, John Bradley.
		On that Sunday morning 53 years ago, only Belle Block was convinced that her son was among the six men who would soon be immortalized in the AP photo.
		Block" announcing officially that the Marine in the far right of the photograph was indeed their son.
	www.iwojima.com /press/worth.htm (1093 words)

	Boerne Star Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harlon was somber but didn't seem bitter because he had made peace with God during his long walks and was thankful that God had given him the opportunity to return home one last time to say his goodbyes.
		Harlon was buried on Iwo Jima, but his body was returned to Weslaco in 1949 for burial at the Weslaco city cemetery.
		Harlon's body was moved once again in 1995 to the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima.
	www.boernestar.com /articles/2005/09/30/news/sports/sports02.txt (894 words)

	HD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harlon Henry Block, participant in the famous flag raising on Iwo Jima, was born at Yorktown, Texas, on 6 November 1924.Young Harlon graduated from Weslaco High School in 1943.
		The Marine's body was buried in the 5th Marine Division Cemetery on Iwo Jima in Plot 4, Row 6, Grave 912, and was later returned to the United States for private burial at Weslaco, Texas.
		Corporal Block was entitled to the following decorations and medals: Purple Heart (awarded posthumously), Presidential Unit Citation with one star (for Iwo Jima), Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with two stars (for the Consolidation of the Northern Solomons and Iwo Jima), American Campaign medal, and the World War II Victory Medal.
	hqinet001.hqmc.usmc.mil /HD/Historical/Whos_Who/Block_HH.htm (362 words)

	Iwo Jima Memorial] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harlon, at the age of 21, died horribly.
		Ira Hayes, who knew that Harlon Block was the correct person and not Hank Hanson, tried to straighten things out after his arrival in Washington, DC.
		Harlon Block was not officially identified as one of the six until...
	15thengineer.50megs.com /iwo_jima_memorial].htm (1889 words)

	JamesBradley.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harlon Block is at the base of the pole, with his back to us.
		Harlon enlisted with all the senior members of his high school football team.
		Harlon died on Iwo Jima with his intestines in his hands.
	www.jamesbradley.com /flagsofourfathers.cfm (664 words)

	Iwo Jima Flag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Iwo Jima flag raisers were Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley, Harlan Block, Rene Gagnon, and Michael Strank.
		Harlon and twelve of his teammates enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1943.
		No one knew that Harlon was one of the six in the famous flag raising picture, but his mother recognized his picture.
	maley.net /harrisferry/IwoJimaFlag.htm (834 words)

	Spooner Advocate - Spooner, Wisconsin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harlon Block was second in command and took over the leadership of the unit when Sgt. Strank was killed.
		When his mother, Belle, saw the flag-raising photo on Feb. 25, 1945, she is reported to have exclaimed, “That’s Harlon!” as she pointed to the person on the far right.
		Block’s mother never backed down and continued to say it was her son.
	www.spooneradvocate.com /placed/index.php?sect_rank=4&story_id=193930 (1402 words)

	Iwo Jima - The Flag Raisers
		He was honored as "All South Texas End." Harlon and twelve of his teammates enlisted in the Marine Corps together in 1943.
		Harlon is buried beside the Iwo Jima Monument in Harlingen, Texas.
		Franklin was a red-haired, freckle-faced "Opie Taylor" raised on a tobacco farm.
	www.iwojima.com /raising/raisingc.htm (1400 words)

	Memorial Day Tribute from jeffandrus.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harlon Block, age 21, was the most athletic.
		When the photograph appeared two days later in hometown newspapers, Belle Block of Walesco, Texas, exclaimed that a man identified as a Bostonian, who is at the front of the group driving the pole into the ground, was really her son Harlon.
		Only hours earlier on March 1st, Cpl. Harlon Block had taken over leadership from Sgt. Mike, who died from friendly fire, probably from a destroyer, while diagramming in the sand another fortified position that had to be taken by his boys.
	www.jeffandrus.com /Virtue.htm (3954 words)

	Joe Brown High School Web Page
		The first guy putting the pole in the ground is Harlon Block.
		Harlon, at the age of 21, died with his intestines in his hands.
		I don't say that to gross you out, I say that because there are generals who stand in front of this statue and talk about the glory of war.
	pages.prodigy.net /mreily/histry.htm (1143 words)

	Parade, rally celebrate veterans - News
		Albert Block, the parade grand marshal and a Pearl Harbor survivor, urged the crowd not to think of American veterans and those who died in war as mere numbers, since each one had someone who cared about them.
		Block also told the story of his cousin, Harlon Block, who was one of six people in the famous photograph raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima.
		Block said Harlon was killed shortly after the photograph was taken.
	www.dailytexanonline.com /media/paper410/news/2001/11/12/News/Parade.Rally.Celebrate.Veterans-505009.shtml (663 words)

	Valor of Iwo Jima heroes leaves a lesson for today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harlon was killed by a mortar blast hours later.
		Block is buried beside the Iwo Jima Monument in Harlingen.
		As the famous photograph was splashed across newspapers around the world, the three surviving flag-raisers became instant celebrities.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/editorial/98/02/23/montgomery-2-23.0-3.html (657 words)

	THE MEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He died on March 1, 1945 when he was hit by a mortar as he was diagramming a plan in the sand.
		Harlon Block: Born in 1924 in Yorktown, Texas, he was natural athlete and led his high school football team to their conference championship.
		He took over the leadership of the unit when the Sergeant was killed, only to be killed hours later by a mortar blast, at the age of 21.
	history.acusd.edu /gen/st/~lmyrick/THExMEN1.html (757 words)

	+Colesville Presbyterian Church + (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		All the glory in the world and the adoring eyes of a nation didn’t mean anything until he had set the record straight and honored the memory of a buddy—for Ira, a true hero, one who had died on the island.
		The Blocks soon contacted their congressman, and after a further investigation, Harlon Block was officially recognized as the Marine in the picture.
		Harlon’s mother, by the way, had maintained all along it was her son Harlon’s back and rear end that were pictured: ‘I changed lots of diapers on that bottom and I know it’s him!
	www.colesvillepresbyterian.com /022204.html (2302 words)

	Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Along with a Navy corpsman, they raised the US flag using an old water pipe for a flagpost.
		Of the six men pictured (Michael Strank, Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley (the Navy corpsman), and Harlon Block) only three (Hayes, Gagnon, and Bradley) survived the battle.
		The photo won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize for best photo; the only photograph to win in the same year it was taken.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima (559 words)

	Sermon June 30, 2002
		Harlon was an outgoing daredevil with many friends at Weslaco High School.
		A natural athlete, Harlon led the Weslaco Panther Football Team to the Conference Championship.
		Harlon was killed by a mortar blast hours later on March 1 at the age of 21.
	home.pacbell.net /fcc1234/sermon02-06-30.htm (1728 words)

	Harlon Block - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A photo colorized to show all six men - Ira Hayes (red), Franklin Sousley (violet), John Bradley (Green), Harlon Block (Yellow), Michael Strank (brown), Rene Gagnon (teal)
		After his death, there was some controversy as to who was in the photograph, when another man's family claimed it was him.
		Eventually Ira Hayes came forth to settle all doubts that it was Block.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Harlon_Block (137 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: BLOCK, HARLON HENRY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harlon Henry Block, marine, the first of four sons of Edward Frederick and Ada Belle Block, was born on November 6, 1924, at Yorktown, Texas.
		Corporal Block helped with the second flag by stooping and guiding the base of the pole into the volcanic ash while the other five men heaved the flag upward.
		In 1995 Block's body was moved from Weslaco to the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Iwo Jima.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/BB/fbl52_print.html (441 words)

	Weslaco, Texas historic photographs
		Harlon Block, far right, was one of the men who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.
		One week after the incident, Corporal Block was killed in an assault on a Japanese position and buried there in the huge cemetery.
		He was later returned to Weslaco in 1949 where all seven of his former classmates served as pallbearers.
	www.texasescapes.com /TOWNS/WeslacoTexas/WeslacoTexasPeople/WeslacoHarlonBlock7.htm (172 words)

	FPC Sermon
		The front four are Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley and Harlon Block.
		Harlon Block was an outgoing daredevil with many friends at Weslaco High School in Texas.
		Franklin Sousley was a red-haired, freckle-faced kid raised on a tobacco farm in Kentucky.
	www.fairfaxpresby.com /worship/sermons/2001_sermons/7-8-01_sermon.html (1451 words)

	Ira Hayes
		Six of those Marines actually raised the Flag, Mike Strank, Harlon Block, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes.
		Three of the six men died in combat, Mike Strank, Franklin Sousley, and Harlon Block.
		The remaining three, John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, and Ira Hayes were chosen by the War Department to become visible, tangible heroes.
	www.angelfire.com /oh5/fallenheroes/irahayes.htm (415 words)

	Texas State Historical Association - The Handbook of Texas Online: Texas Day By Day - February 23, 1945
		On this day in 1945, Cpl. Harlon Block of Weslaco appeared in one of the most indelible images to come out of World War II.
		In Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal's picture of the six men raising this second flag, which won the Pulitzer Prize, the twenty-year-old Block was the stooping figure guiding the base of the flagpole into the volcanic ash.
		Block was buried in the Fifth Marine Division cemetery at the foot of Mount Suribachi, though his body was taken home to Weslaco in 1949.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /daybyday/02-23-003.html (232 words)

	The strands of Iwo Jima \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Franklin Sousley, 19, of Hilltop, Ky., pharmacist's mate John Bradley, 21, of Antigo, Wis.; and Cpl. Harlon Block, 20, a high school football star from Rio Grande Valley, Texas., at the foot of the pole.
		Block, Strank and Sousley would be killed in action before the battle ended March 26 or 27.
		The exact date is in dispute, because, by then, all but 1,083 of the 22,000 Japanese defenders were dead.
	www.ajc.com /opinion/content/opinion/0205/20isiwomain.html (896 words)

	Texas Highways - Speaking of Texas
		Upon graduating from Weslaco High in 1942, star football player Harlon Block, along with 12 other seniors from the team, enlisted in the Marine Corps.
		In the photo, Harlon Block is on the far right, pushing the flagpole into the rocks.
		Harlon Block was buried in Weslaco; in 1995, during a ceremony marking the Battle of Iwo Jima’s 50th anniversary, his body was reinterred near a sculpture of the Iwo Jima flag-raising at Harlingen’s Marine Military Academy.
	www.texashighways.com /currentissue/speakingoftexas.php?id=194 (248 words)

	A Texan Abroad: Reflections on Heroism
		So, I thought I'd introduce you to Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley, John Bradley, Harlon Block, Michael Strank, and Rene Gagnon.
		You may just recognize Ira Hayes...he's the 'wiskey drinkin' indian, the Marine that went to war' that Johnny Cash made famous (again).
		Mike Strank (a Checkoslovak by birth, but an American by spirit), Harlon Block (an honorable Texan, and a servant of his nation, in his generations darkest hours), and Franklin Sousley (a mountain man from Kentucky) never got the accolades, the parades, the War Bonds tours.
	atexanabroad.blogspot.com /2005/09/reflections-on-heroism.html (978 words)

	The Second Flag Raising On Iwo Jima (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A year passed before Gagnon realized that the Marine he had believed to be Hansen actually was another victim of the fight on Iwo Jima - Corporal Harlon Block.
		Ironically, Hansen had taken part in the earlier, less celebrated flag raising on Iwo Jima and was killed by a sniper a few days later while being treated for wounds by Pharmacist's Mate Bradley.
		He then claimed that the person at the base of the flagstaff was Corporal Harlon Block.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/6350/flag2.htm (1321 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Suribachi Flag Raisings (2/23/1945) - Feb. 25th, 2004
		When the men arrived at the top, Lieutenant Schrier decided that the new flag should be raised as the original one was lowered.
		Sergeant Strank, Corporal Block, Private First Class Hayes and Private First Class Sousley fastened the larger colors to a second pipe and then tried to set the makeshift staff in the rugged ground.
		Before the battle ended, three of the six (Strank, Sousley and Block) were dead—never learning of their fame.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1085001/posts (14880 words)

	Iwo Jima
		The most famous image from the Battle of Iwo Jima is undoubtedly the photograph of the flag raising at the summit of Mount Suribachi that was taken by the AP's Joe Rosenthal.
		The flag-raisers as seen in the photo, are (from left to right) Ira Hayes, Franklin R. Sousley, Michael Strank, John Bradley, Rene A. Gagnon, and Harlon Block.
		Strank, Block, and Sousley were killed in the battle that continued on Iwo Jima.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/iwojima1.html (428 words)

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