Iwo Jima Veterans Blast Time's 'Special Environmental Issue' Cover
For only the second time in 85 years, Time magazine abandoned the traditional red border it uses on its cover. The occasion – to push more global warming alarmism.
The cover of the April 21 issue of Time took the famous Iwo Jima photograph by Joe Rosenthal of the Marines raising the American flag and replaced the flag with a tree. The cover story by Bryan Walsh calls green “the new red, white and blue.”
Donald Mates, an Iwo Jima veteran, told the Business & Media Institute on April 17 that using that photograph for that cause was a “disgrace.”
“It’s an absolute disgrace,” Mates said. “Whoever did it is going to hell. That’s a mortal sin. God forbid he runs into a Marine that was an Iwo Jima survivor.”
Mates also said making the comparison of World War II to global warming was erroneous and disrespectful.
“The second world war we knew was there,” Mates said. “There’s a big discussion. Some say there is global warming, some say there isn’t. And to stick a tree in place of a flag on the Iwo Jima picture is just sacrilegious.”
According to the American Veterans Center (AVC), Mates served in the 3rd Marine Division and fought in the battle of Iwo Jima, landing on Feb. 24, 1945.
“A few days later, Mates’ eight-man patrol came under heavy assault from Japanese forces,” Tim Holbert, a spokesman for the AVC, said. “During fierce-hand-to-hand combat, Mates watched as his friend and fellow Marine, Jimmy Trimble, was killed in front of his eyes. Mates was severely wounded, and underwent repeated operations for shrapnel removal for over 30 years.”
Being Good Stewards of the Earth is one thing... and I applaud everyone who does their part. But comparing the two; fighting climate change and fighting WWII is beyond ludicrous!
This cover, much like the magazine it wraps itself around is good for absolutely nothing that I can think of save kitty box liner or fish wrap like so many pieces of the New York Times!
I don't know that we should "suddenly" jump on one source of the use of this icon without mentioning the others, in all fairness.
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The GI Joe toy, uses this icon on several of it's boxes. Some will counter that this is indeed G I Joe, but then again, is war a game for children? It IS a toy. It IS for children to supposedly have FUN with. At very least, the use of the icon in this sense, is more offensive then the TIME use, as there is a serious statement being made in TIME; not just a toy to learn that "war can be fun and exciting". But, this is only IMHO.
And he dreams of another world
in another time, in another place
where no man has to wear a sign
saying where he's from saying what's his race
and he wants us to believe, this world that he sees.
- TSO