On Sunday, at the Marine Corps Memorial in Washington, one of the arriving veterans, Tom Kennedy from Bismarck, raised his hand and pointed to a tattoo on his forearm that almost perfectly replicated the famous sculpture of the raised flag. Next to it, on his other arm, he has long had the Marine Corps emblem. For Kennedy, this visit was not just a stop on his itinerary: this very monument became the prototype for his tattoo, and he had waited for years to see it in person, next to his own forearm.