July 30, 2008 — Sixty-three years after he helped raise the American flag atop Iwo Jima’s Mount Suribachi, Sgt. Michael Strank’s younger sister, Mary Pero, 75, accepted his official certificate of citizenship during a ceremony at the Marine Corps War Memorial July 29. Strank was mortally wounded eight days after Joe Rosenthal captured the now iconic flag raising. MORE
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