That's just wrong. Plain disrespectful.... That's all I have to say.

Originally Posted by justin1552

That's just wrong. Plain disrespectful.... That's all I have to say.

I agree.










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A bit over sensitive I feel. every body knows the significance of the original picture. No insult was intended nor should it have been taken.

If it was something that was offensive to the memory of those Marines who raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi, like the flag of an enemy state, or perhaps a Cannabis plant, I could understand. What is disrespectful about a tree?

The implication was as I see it, "We fought for our freedom, now we must fight for our planet".

Probably wasn't very good in taste but I also think it might be an overreaction.
It might have more to do with the left versus the right at this point.

Originally Posted by senojekips

A bit over sensitive I feel. every body knows the significance of the original picture. No insult was intended nor should it have been taken.

If it was something that was offensive to the memory of those Marines who raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi, like the flag of an enemy state, or perhaps a Cannabis plant, I could understand. What is disrespectful about a tree?

The implication was as I see it, "We fought for our freedom, now we must fight for our planet".

+1, well said.

I'll say this. As long as it's the Iwo Vets who find it disrespectful I will support their view point. They fought on that Island. They left friends on that Island.

Only three of those flag raisers (the second flag to go up) walked off that Island the rest died there.

If that use of the photo offends them then it offends me. If they feel it disrepectful of the memories of their comrades, then I feel that they are being disrespected.

The guys offended fought across that beach, thru those bunkers and caves across those air fields and up the slope of Suribachi. They earned the right to feel offended at the use of that photo if they find it disrespectful. They earned it thru blood, sweat and tears.

So if the Veterans of Iwo Jima are offended. Then by god I'm offended with them.

The picture belong to Time Magazine. It was taken by a photographer from LIFE Magazine which was bought by Time 3 decades ago. Ergo its TIME property.

Nor do I understand the fuss, its simply an anology. They are equating the stuggle at IWO to the Global Warming struggle, nothing more. They arn't trying to diminish what happened in 1945.

And if were not the Iwo vets taking offense then I'd call it a non- issue. But it is the Iwo vets.

And while the purpose may be as you have stated. If it offends the Iwo vets then I'll stand by them and Time can go piss up a rope, their property or not although I do wonder what Joe Rosenberg (the photographer) would say about it's use.

While everyone is saying "non-issue. Get over it." they might do well to remember that for the Iwo vet's that photo encompasses a very pivotal and life changing experience for them. It reminds them not of a "struggle" it reminds them of the friends they left there and what they went thru on that island.

Theres damn few Iwo vets left and if they want that memory protected and respected as they see it, I don't see how giving them that in their declining years is too much to ask. Regardless of what statement Time is trying to make.

Dont know how to feel about it, but my gut reaction was to find it disrespectful.

"We fought for our freedom, now we must fight for our planet".

Off-center for so many reasons.

The metaphor between fighting Japan and fighting Global Warming just does not work.

Originally Posted by senojekips

A bit over sensitive I feel. every body knows the significance of the original picture. No insult was intended nor should it have been taken.

If it was something that was offensive to the memory of those Marines who raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi, like the flag of an enemy state, or perhaps a Cannabis plant, I could understand. What is disrespectful about a tree?

The implication was as I see it, "We fought for our freedom, now we must fight for our planet".

I am going to agree with this there have been countless parodies of this event from the Simpsons to beach landings in Somalia where was the outcry during these events?