Before Harlon Block became a World War II hero immortalized in the iconic photo of U.S. troops raising the American flag at Iwo Jima, he was part of an inseparable group of eight high school football ...

You’ve probably never heard of Harlon Block, but you know him. He was born in 1924 in rural Texas. His father was a World War I veteran. Across the Great Depression his father, a dairy farmer, ...

STAMFORD, Conn. – November 5, 2015 – Tomorrow’s “Together We Make Football” segment on TODAY features the story of south Texas area high school football teammates and Marines Harlon Block and Glen ...

The original mold of the Marine Corps War Memorial, also known as the Iwo Jima flag-raising memorial, is on display in Harlingen, Texas where flag-raiser and Marine Cpl. Harlon Block lived. This month ...