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A flag carried by a WWII Japanese soldier is returning to his family
« on: July 27, 2023, 02:11:22 pm »
A flag carried by a WWII Japanese soldier is returning to his family
By Ken Miller, The Associated Press
 Friday, Jul 21
 
A flag carried by a Japanese soldier killed in action during World War II was handed over Thursday by the USS Lexington Museum in Texas to a nonprofit organization for return to the man’s family.

Known as a Good Luck Flag, it is covered with the signatures of Shigeyoshi Mutsuda, his family and friends. The Corpus Christi museum where it was displayed for 29 years gave the flag to the Obon Society, a nonprofit organization that has returned about 500 similar flags, known as non-biological human remains, to descendants of Japanese service members killed during the war.


“This is all that’s left of this man” to return to his family, said Obon Society co-founder Rex Ziak. “They feel exactly the same as Americans when they receive the bones or teeth” of relatives who were identified and returned decades after being killed in war, he said.

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2023/07/21/a-flag-carried-by-a-wwii-japanese-soldier-is-returning-to-his-family/
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Re: A flag carried by a WWII Japanese soldier is returning to his family
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2023, 02:33:36 pm »
Cool.
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Re: A flag carried by a WWII Japanese soldier is returning to his family
« Reply #2 on: July 27, 2023, 04:31:34 pm »
I hope this helps bring closure for that man’s family

The Japanese soldier was tough. If I was a World War II soldier, I would rather have been in Europe fighting the Germans, than in the Pacific fighting the Japanese.
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