Ira Hayes, a Native American marine immortalized raising the American flag over Iwo Jima, sits in a Los Angeles jail cell (1953). Crippling PTSD and unwanted fame saw Hayes arrested 52 times for public intoxication after the war. He froze to death in the Arizona desert while drunk in 1955.
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