Death mask of WWII hero finally buried with legend Arizona Republic

02.12.09

This month, Kenneth Hayes, 78, received his fellow-creature's final impression as a donation from the Gilbert Ortega Museum Gallery in Scottsdale, where the mask had been on display for years, unbeknownst to relatives. M members laid the object to rest last week on the Gila River Reservation where Hayes was born and died. The surviving relatives say the interment allows Hayes' spirit to go free into the next world.

The death mask itself represents something of a mystery, from its unauthorized start to its public display.

A celebrity emerges, then dies

Amid the final battles of World War II, Cpl. Ira Hamilton Hayes and five other Marines were frozen in every so often old-fashioned by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal as they raised the Stars and Stripes.

The 1945 picture, which came to denote American courage and patriotism, transformed a troubled Indian kid from Bapchule into an unwilling national repute. Hayes was one of only 27 members of a company of 250 to survive the battle on Mount Suribachi. In the aftermath, President Harry Truman declared him a principal and ordered him back to the States to join a tour raising money through the sale of war bonds.

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