Learn about "The Ballad Of Ira Hayes," a song about a Native American marine at Iwo Jima that Cash dared radio to play. https://JohnnyCash.lnk.to/BitterTears | Johnny Cash

On this date in 1964, JOHNNY CASH released the single THE BALLAD OF IRA HAYES (Jun 2, 1964) Fifty-eight years ago today, Johnny Cash released the folk song, “The Ballad of Ira Hayes.” Backlash immediately followed. The song is about a real-life man, Ira Hayes who was a Pima Native American and one of the Marines in the famous photo from Iwo Jima. He was one of six men to return from that battle. However, after his heroic deeds during World War II, Hayes battled alcoholism and unhappiness on a re

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

553K views · 14K reactions | The Defense Department has removed a webpage celebrating Native American Ira Hayes, one of six Marines seen raising a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima in 1945 in an iconic photo. It was reportedly one of several pages about minority service members erased from the site under President Trump’s anti-DEI mandate. | CBS Mornings | Facebook

TODAY IS FEBRUARY 19 | IWO JIMA DAY Did you know there was a Native American at Iwo Jima? This is the story of Ira Hamilton Hayes, a Pima Indian from Arizona and one of the six Marines who became a symbol of courage for America at war when they raised the flag atop Mt. Suribachi. Seventy thousand marines were sent to capture the island of Iwo Jima and more than 23,000 died trying. Thanks to our friends at Arizona PBS for covering this amazing warrior! | FNX | First Nations Experience