John Benjamin Hickey credited as playing...
Keyes Beech
- Ira Hayes: Hank wasn't in the picture.
- Bud Gerber: Sorry?
- Ira Hayes: Hank didn't raise that flag. He raised the other one. The real flag.
- Bud Gerber: The what? The real... the real flag? There's a *real* flag?
- John "Doc" Bradley: Yeah, ours was the replacement flag. We put it up when they took the other one down.
- Bud Gerber: Am I the only one getting a headache here? You know about this?
- Keyes Beech: It was after it was already in the papers. The mothers had already been told by then.
- Bud Gerber: Aw, that's it, that's beautiful. Yeah, that's beautiful. Yeah, why tell me? I'm only the guy that has to explain it to a hundred and fifty million Americans. Who is in the goddamn picture? Are *any* of you guys in the goddamn picture?
- Ira Hayes: Yeah, we're in the goddamn picture.
- Bud Gerber: Six guys raising a flag over Iwo Jima. Victory is ours. You're three of them, right?
- John "Doc" Bradley: This was the fifth day, sir. The battle went on for thirty-five more.
- Bud Gerber: Well, what'd you do, raise a goddamn flag every time you stopped for lunch?
- Ira Hayes: [whispers to Bradley] Can I hit this guy?
- Ira Hayes: I know it's a good thing, raising the money and that, 'cause we need it. But, I can't take them calling me a hero. All I did was try not to get shot. Some of the things I saw done, things I did, they weren't things to be proud of, you know? Mike... Mike was a hero. You ever meet him?
- Keyes Beech: No.
- Ira Hayes: Best Marine I ever met.
- Keyes Beech: You know, Chief, I think if Mike was sitting here instead of you, he'd be saying the same thing about himself, not being a hero.
- Ira Hayes: Maybe. He was a good guy, but I think that he'd be ashamed of me, seeing me the way I am.