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WWII Marine veteran returns ancestral flag to Japanese family (Interview - Strombo)
AFN Iwakuni
Aug. 16, 2017 | 8:36
Marvin Strombo, Missoula, Montana, is a United State Marine Corps, World War II veteran. Strombo traveled over 100,000 miles to return a flag that he kept safe for 73 years to the Yasue family. Strombo talks about how the moment he took the flag, what the returning ceremony was like and how this lifetime event changed him as a person.
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