Brookline man’s Iwo Jima mementos bring closure to Japanese family

boston herald ^ | October 28, 2010 | Associated Press

[Charlespg]

For decades, the faded photograph of a baby Japanese girl and a child’s colorful drawing hung on a wall in the Brookline home of Franklin Hobbs III.

As a 21-year-old U.S. soldier fighting on Iwo Jima, one of the bloodiest battles of World War II, Hobbs found them in the pocket of a fallen Japanese soldier and took them as a souvenir.

[Charlespg]

interesting that they could find the family members

[BigSkyFreeper]

Already posted: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2616271/posts

[rovenstinez]

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[oprahstheantichrist]

"Takekawa now intends to go to Iwo Jima every year. "I feel that somehow my father made this all happen," she said."

Mine too.

"'It was just death everywhere, and I hated it,' he said.....Hobbs never discussed his memories of the war."

My dad didn't either, but I always sensed that he remained horrified by it to his last days (he passed in 1988).

Thanks for posting this.