In February 1945, the Iwo Jima War, dubbed the "meat grinder of the Pacific", ended. On the fifth day of the battle, five U.S. Navy soldiers, a military doctor, and a military journalist together "created" a heroic photo, a photo symbolizing national victory: they planted the American flag on the commanding heights of Iwo Jima. When the photos made headlines in major newspapers in the United States, three of the six heroes at the time died heroically before even knowing they had become heroes. The remaining three who survived did not say a word about the war after the war, as if they had never participated in it. Because they did not go to the battlefield to become heroes, they fought for the country. When they saw their partners falling one by one, they felt that the meaning of their lives was losing little by little...