Witness at Iwo Jima; Webster vet says flag a `good sign'.(NEWS)

From: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) | Date: June 14, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: John Dignam

WEBSTER - Caesar L. Avigo remembers the American flag being raised at the battle of Iwo Jima, but he also remembers that it made little impression on him at the time.

"I didn't really give it much thought. The flag went up," the 97-year-old World War II Navy veteran said yesterday.

"You don't realize it, when there's this massive affair going on and you're in the middle of it," he said of the importance of the flag being raised....

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