1861: President elect Lincoln arrived in Washington DC

The United States was an angry country when President-elect Lincoln took a train from Illinois to Washington DC to assume the presidency.   

There were threats of secession and war.   It was not a happy time.

On this day in 1861, President elect Lincoln arrived in Washington DC rather than Baltimore.    He was warned about an assassination attempt in Baltimore and reluctantly changed plans.

Two weeks later, he became the 16th president of the US.    

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We remember Joe Rosenthal (1911-2006)

Is there a better war photo than this?

Joe Rosenthal, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his immortal image of six World War II servicemen raising an American flag over battle-scarred Iwo Jima, died in 2006. He was 94.     

On February 23, 1945, Joe was 33 and took this famous photo of five battle-weary Marines and a Navy corpsman struggling to raise a flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.

Iwo Jima was intense:  a 36-day battle that left 6,621 American dead and 19,217 wounded. 

Great photo!

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1945: The Marines at Mt Suribachi

Back in 1945 or many years ago, the battle of Iwo Jima was in full force.  

Taking the island of Iwo Jima was essential to the Pacific strategy.   

The island became an important post for future B-29 bombing missions against the Japanese mainland.

  

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