Ira Hamilton Hayes was a pima Indian, born on January 12, 1923, in
Sacaton, Arizona.  He was one of six men immortalized in a World War II
photograph of the Marines struggling to raise the American flag on the
island of Iwo Jima, in the Pacific.  The famous bronze monument in
Washington, D.C., is based on this image.  Hayes is pictured here wearing
parachute gear.  Brought back to the United States as a hero with the
other two men who survived, Hayes was confused and disturbed by the
unwanted and excessive publicity that awaited him.  He became an
alcoholic, was arrested countless times, and eventually died of exposure
on January 24, 1955.  He once said, "Sometimes I wished that guy had never
made that picture."