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Japanese man in an American army


     uniform.  Fred saw his own son was

     missing a leg, and the Japanese man


     was missing an arm.

            David smiled at his father.


     “Dad, you remember Kim Sato, our

     neighbor, don’t you?”

            The young Japanese man


     reached out his left hand, the only

     one he had, but Fred did not take it.


     Then David said something that

     burned through Fred’s soul as


     nothing had before.  “Dad, I’m alive

     today because of Kim.  I fell


     wounded on the battlefield, and

     Kim crawled out and pulled me to


     safety, losing his arm and nearly

     losing his life.”

            Fred slowly took Kim’s





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