Posted on 07/15/2013 9:58:28 AM PDT by RaceBannon
This is something cool, so fat, as it is translated, itis a series of personal messages to a soldier on Iwo Jima, wishing him well
way cool
Can you supply a few more details about the back story? Whatever you know.
Great piece of history.
I don’t read Japanese. Nor Cursive.
And certainly not cursive Japanese.
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More about the Japanese flag from a Seattle TV station feature story last night. Great story and a classy old Marine
(Video and story at link).
A friend of mine had one of these given to him. His flag was covered with bullet holes and blood. It took a while to figure out what happened to it.
An old timer that had some knowledge of what the flag was and what it was for and solved the mystery. The flag had been neatly folded into a small square and had been carried by a Japanese soldier that had been shot with a single bullet which left a hole in every layer.
He said the flags were given to the village men that went off to war and every member of their village wrote a message on them wishing then good luck.
He couldn’t say whether or not the soldier was killed but there was not much blood on the flag which usually meant the heart was not pumping.
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