February 23, 1945: During the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S.
Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th
Regiment of the 5th Division took the crest of Mount Suribachi.
the island’s highest peak and most strategic position, and
raised the U.S. flag.

Marine photographer Louis Lowery, who was with them,
recorded the event. Americans fighting for control of
Suribachi’s slopes cheered the raising of the flag.

Several hours later, more Marines headed up to the crest
with a larger flag. Joe Rosenthal, a photographer with the
Associated Press, met them along the way and recorded
the raising of the second flag along with a Marine still
photographer and a motion-picture cameraman.

Louis R. Lowery (July 24, 1916 – April 15, 1987)

      1995

On Valentine’s Day, 1990, 3.7 billion miles away from the sun,
the Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photograph of Earth.

The picture, known as Pale Blue Dot, depicts our planet as a
nearly indiscernible speck roughly the size of a pixel.

Launched on September 5, 1977, Voyagers 1 and 2 were
charged with exploring the outer reaches of our solar
system.

On May 10, 1970, 40 seconds into overtime of Game 4 of the
Stanley Cup final, Boston Bruins star Bobby Orr slips the
winning goal past St. Louis Blues goaltender Glenn Hall.

After scoring, Orr leaps into the air before landing flat and
sliding into his teammates’ embrace. The famous celebration
is immortalized by Boston Record-American photographer
Ray Lussier, whose image of the soaring Orr is one of the
most famous sports photographs of all time.

In Boston sports lore, Orr’s game-winner, which made the
Bruins NHL champions, is known as "The Goal."

Robert Gordon Orr (77)

Raymond Roger Lussier (1931 – 2003)

The photo depicting Lt. Col. Robert L. Stirm and his family,
called “Burst of Joy,” goes on to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1974.

Stirm was among 20 POWs from prison camps in North
Vietnam aboard the plane that landed at Travis AFB,
where a large crowd of family members turned up to
welcome their loved ones home.

Stirm, an Air Force fighter pilot shot down over Hanoi in
1967, had spent more than five years as a prisoner of the
Vietnam War.

“Burst of Joy” has appeared in numerous books and
exhibits and symbolizes for many the end of the divisive
Vietnam War—which claimed some 58,000 American lives
and the dawn of new life after a dark period.

Stirm retired from the United States Air
Force as a Colonel and lives in California.

Slava "Sal" Veder

New System Laundry with fleet and employees 1001 NE
Flanders St. (City of Portland photo)