[The following is in regards to a childhood prank played by Franklin Sousley, one of the men depicted in Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photograph, Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.]
His close friend J. B. Shannon remembers Franklin as “a big freckle-faced boy with bright red hair. A rambunctious young man, not afraid of anyone.”
There was that dewy Halloween night when he and J.B. rounded up a couple of cows and prodded them onto the Hilltop General Store porch and strung up some wire so they couldn’t get back off, and then treated them to some Epsom salts. “Those cows shit on the porch all night,” J.B. fondly remembered nearly a lifetime later.
Source:
Bradley, James, and Ron Powers. “All-American Boys.” Flags of Our Fathers. Bantam Dell, a Division of Random House, Inc., 2006. 27. Print.
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