Regular Singular Points

I was reading a back issue of Notre Dame Magazine and came across the name Robert Leader, Professor Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. I hadn’t heard his name in years and I am amazed and delighted that he is still at Notre Dame. Dr. Leader was one of my father’s art professors. He designed, among many other things, the stained-glass windows in the chapel of Keenan Hall and painted the Stations of the Cross mural that spans the entire length of Little Flower Church in South Bend, Indiana. If you see paintings of my father’s from the 1950′s and early 1960′s, you would immediately recognize Dr. Leader’s style in my father’s work. What most people don’t know is that Dr. Leader was a Marine that fought on Iwo Jima when the American Flag was so famously raised on Mt. Suribachi. He was a 20-year-old Corporal at the time and I found a link to his recollections about that day. I have copied and pasted his story here, without permission, in case the link goes away. It’s quite long, but for history buffs, this is some interesting stuff.

The Killing Fields of Sulfur Island

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