2 thoughts on ““Harold said, ‘I was one of the flag raisers,’ ” his stepdaughter, Dezreen MacDowell, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. “I said, ‘My gosh, Harold, you’re a hero.’ He said, ‘No, I was a Marine.’ ””
Days after the photograph was taken in 1945, Mr. Schultz sustained wounds to his arm and stomach, and he was sent home. Several months later, Mr. Schultz, who was originally from Michigan, was discharged from the Marines.
The federal government helped him get a job in Los Angeles as a mail sorter for the Postal Service. He was single until age 60, when he married Ms. MacDowell’s mother, who lived next door in his apartment building and shared a porch. But he never moved in with her and rarely discussed his time in the military, according to Ms. MacDowell.
That's a bit of nice time. Never too late for love.
Yes. I like to beat up on the military here, partly because I was in it for a while and worked for it for a long time so I know some of the dumb stuff, but it's ennobling to see a brave person who doesn't want any glory, reflected or otherwise.
That's a bit of nice time. Never too late for love.
Yes. I like to beat up on the military here, partly because I was in it for a while and worked for it for a long time so I know some of the dumb stuff, but it's ennobling to see a brave person who doesn't want any glory, reflected or otherwise.