| What did my grandfather lose
that summer? |
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| What did he gain? |
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| I'm writing this letter wishing to find out. |
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| My grandfather Mike Stewart, |
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| took part in the war against your country
as a destroyer Captain. |
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| As a Navy man,
he boasted a glittering war record. |
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| Right after the war ended,
he hung up his uniform... |
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| and led a quiet civilian life from then on. |
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| My grandfather never talked about
his memories of the war. |
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| I always heard that
he never kept any mementos... |
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| from his days in the Navy. |
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| But one item he Ieft behind
was the sheet music I have enclosed... |
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| which he carefully preserved for years. |
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| Mr Suzuki? |
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| Yes. And you must be
Ms lzumi Kuramoto... |
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| Yes. |
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| My grandfather was Takayuki Kuramoto. |
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| This was my grandmother's
maiden name. |
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| The Veterans' Association
found me through her. |
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| But why would someone
in the U.S. Navy back then... |
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| have kept this more than 60 years? |
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