“I said, ‘Hi, my name is Kelly,’ and didn’t think anything about it," Cowin told the paper. “My grandmother didn’t know how her brother, Fujio, died in the war, or even where he died,” Sano told The Journal News. Related Image Expand / Contract Japanese soldier Fujio Kawasaki's battle flag. “Everyone in the family had read it and there was something about that article that spoke to me,” Cowin told the Journal News. McCormack, the lone survivor of his 30-man unit on Guam, kept the flag, stashed in the attic, haunted by Kawasaki’s death.

Source: Fox News May 22, 2016 13:20 UTC