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Under Armour Apologizes For Invoking Iwo Jima Image On Shirt
- Huffington Post, Wednesday, May 20, 2015 8 AM
Under Armour is killing a new shirt design appropriates the famous photo by Joe Rosenthal of U.S. Marines and seamen raising the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima. In a series of tweets and a Facebook post, the brand apologized for the “Band of Ballers” shirts, which replace the flag and pole for a basketball goal and net, with players instead of soldiers erecting it.
