Ira+Hayes

Ira Hayes

Ira Hayes was one of the Marines seen in the picture of the raising of the flag on Mount Suribachi. Although Hayes was a celebrity from the famous picture, he never wanted the fame, and tried to hide from it when he returned home from the war with an honorable discharge. Hayes died from over exposure after he got drunk and passed out in a ditch near the bar. After the death, he was taken to a mortuary where a secret death mask was made of him and taken to a house. The death mask began to change hands and soon ended up in a museum where the family learned about it. The death mask was returned to the family and they broke it, because of a beleif that his spirit couldn't be brought to rest as long as the mask existed.