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to live their lives and raise their
families in peace.
Lewis's final assignment was in
Tokyo. He had only been there a short
time when he ran into the lady from
years earlier who had offered him the
rose. She recognized him and brought
him the rose. It was now dry and in a
small envelope. She offered it to him,
and this time he accepted it. She told
him she was a widow, and her only
child, her son, had come up missing in
the war. But when the war ended, she
learned her son was a U.S. prisoner of
war.
"They took good care of him," she
said. "And when the war ended, they
let him come home to me. I had
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