On the day following the historic Breixt vote in the United Kingdom, it seems that the world is ready to knock down icons of stability and throw caution to the wind. The regime of the EU evolved to maintain world economic order after the battles of World War II. So it seems quite appropriate that the greatest icon of that war fell, or at least was corrected, this week as well.

The United States Marine Corps acknowledged this week, seventy-one years after the event, that it had misidentified one of the Marines in Joe Rosenthal’s ironic flag raising image from Iwo Jima. The previously unknown Pfc. Harold Schultz of Detroit is the sixth man in the picture, service leaders confirmed.

This speaks to two things. First, is the tenuous state of information from that time compared to ours. And second, is the power of photography to capture, freeze the moment, and ultimately play witness to the facts.