Editing Michael Strank (section)

== Marine Corps War Memorial ==
[[File:USMC War Memorial Night.jpg|thumb|right|The [[USMC War Memorial|U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial]] in [[Arlington, Virginia|Arlington]], [[Virginia]]]]
The [[Marine Corps War Memorial]] in Arlington, Virginia, was dedicated on November 10, 1954.<ref>[http://www.barracks.marines.mil/History/MarineCorpsWarMemorial.aspx The Marine Corps War Memorial] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529091725/http://www.barracks.marines.mil/History/MarineCorpsWarMemorial.aspx |date=2016-05-29 }} Marine Barracks Washington, D.C.</ref> Sculptor [[Felix de Weldon]] was inspired to make the memorial after seeing Rosenthal's photograph of the second flag raising. De Weldon duplicated the flag raisers images and positions on the memorial from the photograph. Strank is depicted as the fourth bronze figure from the base of the flagstaff on the memorial with the 32-foot (9.8 M) bronze figures of the other five flag raisers depicted on the memorial. The Marine Corps announced on June 23, 2016, that [[Harold Schultz]] is now in back of Strank instead of [[Franklin Sousley]], who is now in front of Strank instead of [[John Bradley (United States Navy)|John Bradley]], who is no longer in the photograph.<ref name="marines.mil"/> The Memorial was turned over to the [[National Park Service]] in 1955.

During the dedication, [[President of the United States|President]] [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] sat upfront with [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] [[Richard Nixon]], [[United States Secretary of Defense|Secretary of Defense]] [[Charles Erwin Wilson|Charles E. Wilson]], [[United States Deputy Secretary of Defense|Deputy Secretary of Defense]] [[Robert B. Anderson (Texas politician)|Robert Anderson]], [[Deputy Secretary of the Interior|Assistant Secretary of the Interior]]  Orme Lewis, and General [[Lemuel C. Shepherd]], the 20th [[Commandant of the United States Marine Corps|Commandant of the Marine Corps]].<ref name="auto2"/> 
Ira Hayes, one of the three surviving flag-raisers depicted on the monument, was seated together with John Bradley, Rene Gagnon, Mrs. Martha Strank, Ada Belle Block, and Mrs. Goldie Price (mother of Franklin Sousley).<ref name=mhmd>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vgwrAAAAIBAJ&pg=4987%2C3731941 |newspaper=Reading Eagle|location=Pennsylvania|agency=Associated Press|title=Memorial honoring Marines dedicated |date=November 10, 1954|page=1}}</ref> Those giving remarks at the dedication included Robert Anderson, Chairman of Day; Colonel J.W. Moreau, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired), President, Marine Corps War Memorial Foundation; General Shepherd, who presented the memorial to the American people; [[Felix de Weldon]], sculptor; and Richard Nixon, who gave the dedication address.<ref name=hpdrms>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cPNXAAAAIBAJ&pg=5563%2C2418577 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=Washington |agency=Associated Press |title=Marine monument seen as symbol of hopes, dreams |date=November 10, 1954 |page=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YXAmygEACAAJ&q=iwo+jima+monuments|title=Iwo Jima Monuments, The Untold Story |last=Brown|first=Rodney |year=2019|publisher=War Museum|accessdate=22 March 2020|isbn=978-1-7334294-3-6}}</ref> Inscribed on the memorial are the following words:

:In Honor And Memory Of The Men of The United States Marine Corps Who Have Given Their Lives To Their Country Since 10 November 1775