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7 - Harlon Block
and Classmates /
Teammates / Fellow Marines / Pall Bearers 1943 |
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From
left to right: Leo Ryan, Carl Sims, Ben Guess, Leo LaDuke, Pete Hall, Glen Cleckler,
Robert Sooter, and Harlon Block.
Photo Courtesy Weslaco Museum |
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photograph was taken for a special graduation when these eight young men of Weslaco
High School Football Team enrolled in the Marine Corps in 1943.
Harlon
Block, far right, was one of the men who raised the flag on Mount Suribachi
on Iwo Jima. One week after the incident, Corporal Block was killed in an
assault on a Japanese position and buried there in the huge cemetery. He was later
returned to Weslaco in 1949 where all seven of his former classmates served as
pallbearers. The caption reports that 20 Weslaco High School students and a teacher
died in WWII.
The Harlon Block Memorial: 1100 Vo-Tech Drive (The
Texas National Guard Armory) | |
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