Forty dollars of ***** 151 *** You will find me in the alley a drunken *** Lights flashing in my brain Spinning gripping my soul Ecstacy in alcoholic rage Writing off the page I raise the flag To Ira Hayes A fallen hero And his last days
Ira Hayes was a native American Indian who served as a marine in WW II in the battle of Iwo Jima . He along with four marines and one sailor were caught in the iconic photograph of the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima . Unfortunately after the war he could not forget the war and drank to excess in an attempt to forget . He was found one cold morning in a ditch frozen to death in 1955 in his native state of Arizona .