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Harlon Block
Harlon Henry Block (November 6, 1924 – March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine who was killed in action on Iwo Jima during World War II. Born in Yorktown, Texas, Block joined the Marine Corps with seven high school classmates in February 1943, and subsequently participated in combat on Bougainville and Iwo Jima. He is best known as one of the six servicemen photographed raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi, on February 23, 1945.
== Early life ==
Block was born in Yorktown, Texas, the third of six children to Edward Frederick Block and Ada Belle Brantley, a Seventh day-Adventist family.〔(Biograph ) from the Handbook of Texas Online.〕 The Block children were: Edward, Jr., Maurine, Harlon, Larry, Corky, and Melford.〔Bradley, p. 31.〕 Edward Frederick Block was a World War I veteran and supported his family by working as a dairy farmer.〔''Flags of Our Fathers'' by James Bradley, p. 29.〕 In hopes of improving the family, the Block family relocated to Weslaco, Texas, a city located in the Rio Grande Valley. His father became a dairy farmer, and the children attended a Seventh-day Adventist private school. Harlon Block was expelled in his freshman year when he refused to tell the principal which student had vandalized the school. Block then transferred to Weslaco High School and was remembered as an outgoing student with many friends. A natural athlete, Block led the Weslaco Panther Football Team to the Conference Championship. He was honored as "All South Texas End". Block and seven of his high school friends decided on joining the Marine Corps before they graduated and the school held a special early graduation ceremony for them in January 1943.〔Hendricks, Mark (7/26/2001), ''Iwo Jima: In Memory Of A Friend'', 7/26/2001 () Retrieved January 10, 2015〕
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