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The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Salvatore Famularo wears both a poppy and a purple heart. Salvatore, with the 4th Marine Division on Iwo Jima, recalled earlier the moment he knew Mount Suribachi was conquered. “I was lying in a hole on my back with my rifle over my shoulder,” he said. “I started hearing all these horns from ships. I said, ‘What the hell is going on?’”  Another Marine answered, “They just secured Mount Suribachi.” As Famularo struggled to get up and take a look, he was told, “Pal, stay where you are or you’ll get picked off.”