"The flag waving overhead was not the Stars and Stripes, but the Confederate Stars and Bars." Even the good reporters make honest errors. I assume it was a CBF raised over the castle, and not the "Stars and Bars". Still a good story. My father in law was an LST Sailor who landed what he called "his" Marines at Okinawa, and kept kamikazes off his ship as trigger man on a 40mm gun on the bow. My Uncle Jay (John Wesley Price) was a tin can Sailor who had his galley stove shot away while he was "safely" (LOL ) at General Quarters! Stan