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The below-quoted article was written in October 2000 by Wisconsin resident Michael T. Powers (whose name has been omitted from most of the Internet-circulated versions), transcribed from a videotape he made of a talk given by author James Bradley at the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. Bradley, whose father, John, was one of the six men pictured in the famous photograph of the flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi in February 1945 (and is thus depicted in the monument's sculpture), had earlier that year published Flags of Our Fathers, an account of the life stories of those six men. This article has been published in a number of books, including Powers' own Heart Touchers, as well as the compilations Chicken Soup for the Grandparent's Soul, God Allows U-Turns: American Moments, and Stories from a Soldier's Heart. This piece was circulating on the Internet by the end of 2000, and by the end of 2002 the following paragraphs had been tacked on to it, although they were neither part of James Bradley's talk nor Michael Powers' account of it: In January 2007, someone thought to add this postscript to the Internet-circulated piece: That part is false. The sculpture does not include a thirteenth hand — there are only twelve. The rumor about the 13th hand has been around for dog's years, though, spread both on the Internet and by amateur tour guides. Said the sculptor Felix de Weldon of the rumor: Thirteen hands. Who needed 13 hands? Twelve were enough.
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