Kodi mudadziwa kuti Hartford County ya Connecticut ili panyumba ya National Iwo Jima Memorial? Iko ili ku New Britain - Newington, Connecticut, tawuni. Timayendetsa pamtunda pa Route 9 nthawi zonse ndikuwona mbendera ya nyenyezi 48 ikuwomba ndipo moto wamoto wosatha ukuwombera nthawi. Koma patatha zaka zambiri tisanatuluke njira 9 ku Exit 29 (Ella Grasso Boulevard) kuti tiwone za msonkho wapamwamba kwa anthu a ku America omwe adafera pachilumba cha Iwo Jima panthawi yomaliza ntchito yolimbana ndi Japan ku World Nkhondo yachiwiri.
National Iwo Jima Memorial mu CT
Chikumbutso chikulimbikitsidwa kuchokera kuchithunzi chodziwika ndi mbiri yakale ndi Joe Rosenthal pa kukweza mbendera ya ku America pa Phiri la Suribachi, Iwo Jima, pa February 23, 1945. Yoponyedwa ndi Joseph Petrovics, Chikumbutso cha Iwo Jima chinadzipatulira pazaka 50 Mbendera ya mbiri yakale ikukweza, pa 23 February, 1995. Pa chaka cha Veteran's Day, chaka chino cha Connecticut chinasankhidwa kukhala National Park Jima Memorial Monument.
Chikumbutsocho chinapangidwa ndipo chinapangidwa ndi Dr. George Gentile, yemwe anayambitsa gulu la a Jima Survivors Association, Inc. A Newington-based Association members adakweza ndalama zomwe zinamanga zomangamanga kwa anthu akugwa omwe akugwa.
Pamene Marines asanu ndi mmodzi omwe adakweza mbendera pa Iwo Jima - Harlon Block, John H. Bradley, Rene Gagnon, Ira Hayes, Franklin Sousley ndi Mike Strank - akhala osasunthika mu chifanizo cha bronze chomwe chimakumbukira chikumbutsocho, kwa onse 6,821 Achimereka omwe adamwalira ku Iwo Jima.
Moto wamuyaya umayaka masiku 365 pachaka, maola 24 pa tsiku, ngati chikumbutso cha zopereka zomwe anthu onse omwe ankateteza ufulu wawo pa nkhondo yachiwiri yapadziko lonse.