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nothing to offer in gratitude but this
rose. Yet, no one would accept it."
Lewis met the woman's son, a
young Japanese man who was his own
age. The young man was missing both
an arm and a leg. He struggled to do
the most menial things. When the
young man learned that Lewis had also
fought in the war, the young man said,
"It is usually those who do not suffer
the consequences of war who start it,
while they who want it the least bear
the greatest burdens of it."
Lewis knew that was true, and that
understanding, along with love and a
rose, changed his heart forever.
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