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.

For 78-year-old Tadamasa Fukiura they are much more ... "The hardest was actually the one used in our own flag -- red," he says. Japan's flag is white with a red circle in the middle.

World War II veteran Marvin Strombo traveled 10,000 miles from his quiet home in Montana to the land of the rising sun to personally return a Japanese flag he had taken from Sadao Yasue during the ...