While Dad passed away at 99 years of age a couple of years ago, I came across this very old and brittle envelope. In it were these portraits of him in his Hiroshima high school uniform, his pristine "Soldier's Pass" from the Presidio of Monterey and a new unseen photo of his youngest brother who was KIA as a Japanese soldier on Leyte in 1944. He is crouching behind the rangefinder field glasses.
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