Japanese WW２ flag returns

[Bugyotsuji]

Heart-warming story with photos of a flag returned by a Texas museum to the son of a soldier who died in Saipan. The son is now over 80 but since he was a baby when his father was drafted he had no memory of his father. Now he feels like he owns a part of his Dad. Sadly his mother who had prayed to her husband every day of her life in front of the family altar passed away recently.

 

In Japanese, but with many photos.

The flag in the US was shown to match the lettering on part of a flag in the only family photo that the son possessed.

 

Moral of the story is that even if some families really do not want to know, sometimes returning such a flag may be exactly the right thing to do.

 

「日章旗」がかなえた亡き父との“再会” 手がかりは家族写真の中に | NHK | WEB特集

[Stephen]

English for me, saved me eye drops, tks