the statue is based on a photo taken by joe rosenthal of the associated press. he was then on duty with the u.s. navy. he was so moved by the image she constructed ursa scale model and then -- a scale model and then dwight d eisenhower dedicated a memorial on november 10, 1954. it was a 179th anniversary of the u.s. marine corps. we will be showing you those shots as the morning progresses. that in the tomb of the unknowns which he saw earlier today. we will hear from nathaniel from alabama, he is retired. good morning, sir. caller: good morning. what i would like to do is to in other lives -- words, when i got out of world war ii, they give us around $300. we also got a 52-20. one year of $20 a week. i lived off of that for a while. that of these soldiers come back, sometimes their parents are dead, and they do not have anything. if they just gave them $20 a week, a lot of them probably would not commit suicide because that is what hurts me, when you hear a lot of these suicides. they of times what it is just come back and their parents are gone and they do not