who was drafted by Japan's Imperial Army in 1943 and killed in action. For him, his father was a bespectacled man in an old family photo standing by a signed good-luck flag that he carried to war.

and together they traced the flag back to Fumio Kudo, a young Japanese soldier who died at just 24 years old in the final days of World War II. Wanting to return the flag in person, Dorsey ...