Details on the websites are sketchy, but apparently, of the three survivors, 'only John Bradley was able to rebuild his life after the War'.

The men were feted as National heroes and 'hounded' by the press. Bradley was careful only to give one interview in his life about Iwo Jima ; Ira Hayes became an alcoholic and died in 1955 and Rene Gagnon did a number of jobs including airline clerk , appearing not to achieve happiness in his peronal life.

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