Damn.  
Only one of those flag raisers left that island, and he’s dead now.  
After 4 days of intense combat, death, and struggle, they raised their nation’s flag to embody their hard fought victory. Only to have this kind of stuff happen for what they did.
 
Do these guys just not get any respect anymore? They fought and died for each other and for their country. Is that so unworthy of your respect that it’s funny to make pictures like this? War isn’t some fun game to joke about. It’s loud, scary, fast, violent, confusing, and stressful. Maybe when you’ve been to war and have seen what happens, you can joke about it. But if you don’t know what those guys went through to raise that flag, then you probably shouldn’t be making jokes like this about it.
 
You can whine all you want at me about how “it doesn’t matter cuz it’s da past”, but it does matter, because those men are why the world is what it’s like today, and they deserve some respect for having the guts to go and change the world for the best.
 
And don’t come at me with something about how “it’s just a joke” or “if u don’t lik it den go away”, because it’s not “just a joke”, it’s an insult. And I won’t go away, because there aren’t enough people like me, that appreciate what others did so I can be typing this out in my own home with my own internet in a free country. If more people cared about why they’re allowed to post disrespectful pictures of their forefathers on a website they can visit at any time on a computer they themselves own on Internet that is unrestricted or monitored, then I think society would be in a lot better place than it is now.
 
/end_rant

@Background Pony #50D5
 
How about no?

upload it to deviantart and watch as people go full retard over how this is offensive and wrong and insulting to the dead soldiers of the WWs.  
because i have seen that happen a lot.

Now who wouldn’t salute that flag?

Wait a sec:  
Japan was the “land of the rising sun.”  
Celestia commands the sun to rise and set.
 
Conspiracy confirmed.
 
Also, I want to see a pic of Japanese soldiers with a Celestia flag now. lol

It’s actually 6 guys raising the flag

I Guess WW1 And WW2 Armies Back In Old Times Supported Rainbow Dash As An Army General Because Of How Awesome She Was To Them :)