UPDATED: Larry Kirby, author and survivor of the Battle of Iwo Jima, dies at 99

UPDATED: Larry Kirby, author and survivor of the Battle of Iwo Jima, dies at 99

MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA — Marine Corps veteran and author Lawrence F. “Larry” Kirby, who as a young soldier survived the Battle of Iwo Jima which many of his fellow Marines didn’t, and who witnessed the raising of the American flag on Mount…