From the Annals of Valor –  In 1945, the Marines raised the US Flag on top of Mount Suribachi, a 550 foot-high extinct volcano at the southern end of Iwo Jima.  The Marines of Company E, Second Battalion, 28th Marines had fought their way to the top for three days. They first planted a small flag to signal the victory to other units on the island.  They later raised a larger flag.  This act was caught in perhaps the most indelible image from the Pacific War.  The Pulitzer Prize winning photograph by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal shows six men raising the flag on Mount Surbachi.  Harlon Block of Weslaco was the Marine guiding the base of the flagpole into the volcanic ash. Block never saw the famous picture.  He was killed in action a week later as his unit advanced in the direction of Mishi Ridge. Block was buried in the Fifth Marine Division cemetery at the foot of Mount Suribachi.  He was brought home for burial in Weslaco in 1949.