http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/04/29/ojii-sans-chrysanthemums-ww2-helmet/ a gift to you and me accidently on purpose somewhere but mostly in the city Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:53:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/04/29/ojii-sans-chrysanthemums-ww2-helmet/#comment-19 Mon, 01 May 2006 12:30:58 +0100 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/04/29/ojii-sans-chrysanthemums-ww2-helmet/#comment-19 Thanks for those reflections Jack! These little life experience stories have overtime tempered my tendencies to categorize, label, judge and nuanced my points of view. Everything is so contingent on context, and i keep needing to be reminded! Thanks for those reflections Jack! These little life experience stories have overtime tempered my tendencies to categorize, label, judge and nuanced my points of view. Everything is so contingent on context, and i keep needing to be reminded!

]]> http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/04/29/ojii-sans-chrysanthemums-ww2-helmet/#comment-18 Mon, 01 May 2006 01:41:08 +0100 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/04/29/ojii-sans-chrysanthemums-ww2-helmet/#comment-18 Very interesting story that life is full of ironies. Very interesting story that life is full of ironies.

]]> http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/04/29/ojii-sans-chrysanthemums-ww2-helmet/#comment-17 Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:39:59 +0100 http://serendipityoucity.blogsome.com/2006/04/29/ojii-sans-chrysanthemums-ww2-helmet/#comment-17 My friends Sueo and Minoru who left Canada as volunteers to join the Japanese military; Sueo was killed in the Shanghai Incident of 1931 while Minoru was reported missing in action. Several years ago I presented their names at the Peace Tower of the Church of Perfect Liberty at Tondabayashi as a memorial tribute. My friends Sueo and Minoru who left Canada as volunteers to join the Japanese military; Sueo was killed in the Shanghai Incident of 1931 while Minoru was reported missing in action. Several years ago I presented their names at the Peace Tower of the Church of Perfect Liberty at
Tondabayashi as a memorial tribute.

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