In honor of Memorial Day......the John Wayne film SANDS OF IWO JIMA (1949)....the three surviving flag raisers (from the famous picture of marines raising the American flag on the island of Iwo Jima) have cameos at the end of the movie. The character played by Wayne hands them (Rene A. Gaglon, Ira H. Hayes, and John H. Bradley) a flag and tells them to go raise it. The actual flag from the raising is used in the movie on loan from the Marine Corps.