Ira Hayes, a Native American Marine immortalized in the famous 1945 photograph of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, became a national hero overnight. But behind the image, he battled severe PTSD and alcoholism - arrested over 50 times before tragically freezing to d*ath in the Arizona desert in 1955. | LazBu
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