The Rochelle Township High School marching band posed in front of the U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial’s world-famous statue (more commonly referred to as the Iwo Jima statue) while in Washington, D.C. (above). The U.S. Marine Corps War Memorial is based on the iconic photograph taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal, and depicts the six soldiers who raised of the second American flag at Iwo Jima in the Japanese Volcano Islands on Feb. 23, 1945, signifying the conclusion of the American campaign in the Pacific during World War II. The memorial is dedicated to “the Marine dead of all wars and their comrades of other services who fell fighting beside them.” The memorial was dedicated on Nov. 10, 1954 by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the American flag has flown from the statue 24 hours a day, 365 days a year by presidential proclamation ever since. (Courtesy photo)