Ron Grossman of the Chicago Tribune took a quick survey in the newsroom the other day — something between a Rorschach test and a pop quiz — asking younger colleagues to identify an iconic photograph:
While some instantly recognized the image, others couldn’t quite place it.“I know I ought to know it,” one co-worker said. “It was in the movie, Flags of Our Fathers.” Some, seeing uniforms, realized it must be a war photo. Maybe Vietnam? One got the era right but the battlefield wrong. She guessed it was D-Day, not, as it was, the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima.
(Hat tip to David Foster.)