Video: A Peaceful Return

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  • Опубликовано: 2 янв 2025

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  • @lienzednem1348
    @lienzednem1348 3 месяца назад +1

    Years passed, and a new generation emerged, shaped by the lessons of the past. In a distant land, a young boy discovered an old photograph of his father, a soldier who had fought bravely in the same tumultuous war. Driven by an unquenchable curiosity and a yearning to connect with his father’s legacy, he embarked on a journey to uncover the stories of those who had shared in his father’s sacrifice. Guided by the strength of the warrior’s spirit, he learned about unity, forgiveness, and the importance of remembrance, realizing that the path to healing lay not just in the memories of the past, but in the connections forged by hope and understanding.

  • @robertrodz5115
    @robertrodz5115 2 года назад +14

    2:55 to 3:10 ... man , it was so hard to watch .... to all heros who lost their lives in war ... regardless which country they're from, thank you for your service !! ✌🏻🇺🇲🇯🇵✌🏻

  • @enterBJ40
    @enterBJ40 3 года назад +6

    What an honorable task this couple is engage with. Showing such respect to the flag and the meaning is beyond admiration.

  • @pablobanados6552
    @pablobanados6552 3 года назад +8

    Such beautiful gestures of peace and reconciliation.
    The US. Older people a godly and generous generation.
    The Japanese people, a suffering, resilient, hard working people. Worthy of great admiration.

  • @TheDarthSoldier
    @TheDarthSoldier 3 года назад +11

    I will always keep my eyes open at any antique store for one of these so that I can send them back

    • @PR4U2NV
      @PR4U2NV 2 года назад +1

      Sadly so many have been kept by soldiers.. So many I've seen on war videos.

    • @billbill9392
      @billbill9392 2 года назад +1

      @@PR4U2NV the 1940's where a different time, hell it wasnt uncommon to keep fingers from japanese soldiers, when I was a kid in the 70's there was a biker who was a ww2 vet he had a Nazi human skull on the front of his Harley, apperently he killed the german and kept his skull was fucked up times for war trophys

    • @PR4U2NV
      @PR4U2NV 2 года назад

      @@billbill9392 wtf.. Well, it's a different thing with Germans as it is for Japanese soldiers. Both were committed but, it was more spiritual for the Japanese. I know my uncle kept and broke off many Jaws for gold teeth.

    • @triggertroy8266
      @triggertroy8266 2 года назад

      @@PR4U2NV don't get me wrong though I know that many injured or surrendering Japanese were killed by Australians in Papua and by Americans on the island campaign I am just trying to say evil was the name of the game at the time ...

    • @AmazinglyGayPhil
      @AmazinglyGayPhil 2 года назад +1

      @@triggertroy8266 We're less to believe that only the Japanese and Germans and Italians were evil.

  • @murfenator923
    @murfenator923 6 лет назад +24

    Such important work. Thank you for helping to create bonds of peace and healing.

    • @nova77791
      @nova77791 5 лет назад +3

      U ever read the rape of nanjing?

    • @wahyukurniawan35p85
      @wahyukurniawan35p85 5 лет назад +1

      @@nova77791 move on dude, move on,

    • @nova77791
      @nova77791 5 лет назад

      @@wahyukurniawan35p85 why

    • @米空軍パイロット
      @米空軍パイロット 5 лет назад +1

      @@nova77791 Because you are fighting a battle that is not yours. There is something disgusting about civilians being more militant than their own military. If you are one of my countrymen, know that we moved on decades ago. We have a gift that many civilians lack. We have the ability to forgive those we fight, even though there was a time when we would have wanted nothing more than to see our enemies die. My grandparents fought on both sides of the conflict, my father bridged the genetic gap, and I have worked alongside the JSDF to keep both our countries safe. We don't need people living under a rock to try to open up old wounds.
      You don't have to agree with me or understand my argument, but you better stay out of our way when we're working towards having stronger ties with our allies.

    • @nova77791
      @nova77791 5 лет назад +1

      @@米空軍パイロット oh apologies. on the contrary,, i absolutely agree with u, i lived in chiba before and found japanese peopole, amazingly smart, kind hardworking, all the best things a country culture or people has to offer. ive also lived in seoul and beijing. its not my opinion that is important here friend

  • @mustangmann3502
    @mustangmann3502 3 года назад +9

    WOW , so nice to see all those flags returned . Giving their families closure . Japan ,once a fierce enemy now an ally an a friend . Cheers to All !!

    • @killernazi3108
      @killernazi3108 2 года назад +2

      Right them was some brave men and wemon they gave up so much so we can have what we have now and people is pissing it away

  • @dannywest9256
    @dannywest9256 Год назад +1

    Just amazing. Beautiful.

  • @reignerbuseo9254
    @reignerbuseo9254 5 лет назад +14

    This is not a flag this is spirit of our japaness souldiers.

  • @_JimS
    @_JimS Год назад +2

    I never knew that about these Japanese flags. So glad they are finding their way back to the Families. Time heals all wounds......

  • @roygbiv3305
    @roygbiv3305 5 лет назад +14

    0:16 ive never seen so many flags lined up neatly in my country.

  • @sr633
    @sr633 5 лет назад +7

    A very special video. Thanks

  • @brandon7482
    @brandon7482 2 года назад +1

    I have a flag brought back from the pacific during ww2. It doesn’t have the fancy characters on it but it’s white (stained) with a red Sun and has the American soldiers name and rank on it that brought it back.

  • @salazarpayne3784
    @salazarpayne3784 5 лет назад +9

    Beautiful!

  • @jpflanery7753
    @jpflanery7753 8 лет назад +15

    A Beautiful Story....

  • @eddielane9569
    @eddielane9569 4 года назад +5

    The stories of the flags and what they mean to the families in Japan is so hard for anyone to know who has not been through a war where they have lost someone. I honor those who fought in the War on both sides because we sent people because Japan attacked us but we forget that the reason Japanese people attacked us was because they were told to by their leadership and that is where the blame lies not so much with the men who fought but there are some cases of atrocities that were carried out by some of the Japanese troops mostly officers and that is a different story but overall the vast amount of troops who fought on both sides were doing what they were told to do.

  • @Lincoln-vj2li
    @Lincoln-vj2li 4 года назад +7

    The soldiers of World War II or dying. Just like it is their time to return to the unknown. It is time for what remains of their former enemy to return home. In war enemies in peace friends

  • @uio890138
    @uio890138 4 года назад +6

    Human souls are beautiful when racism and politics (ie. the Devil) are separated from them.

  • @mal.s.tluanga
    @mal.s.tluanga 4 года назад +6

    I have seen a video who returned one of the flag ..it was sir martin

  • @charlest.velten6983
    @charlest.velten6983 5 лет назад +8

    I love the story and what it's all about and the humanity that has been shown. But has anything from the Japanese come back to any of the American soldiers and their families ?

  • @zachowon
    @zachowon 4 года назад +2

    I love what they are doing.

  • @christopherqchin4319
    @christopherqchin4319 3 года назад

    I hope Asian giants can forgive each other and acknowledge atrocities done during the war. Unfortunately till today 3 months to 2022. There are a lot of distrust

  • @mikatanaka8470
    @mikatanaka8470 5 лет назад +6

    ❤️

  • @suzannePhillips-k1m
    @suzannePhillips-k1m 3 месяца назад

    respect

  • @nyuthevlog2146
    @nyuthevlog2146 2 года назад

    Most of the japan n British soldiers die in nagaland, india during the second World War..in wich the British tank is still in kohima. .

  • @whiskyngeets
    @whiskyngeets 3 года назад

    Wow.

  • @christian_2380
    @christian_2380 3 года назад +1

    If they don't find the owner do they send it back to people in America?

  • @stephenhathaway269
    @stephenhathaway269 6 лет назад +5

    Love this

  • @loetzcollector466
    @loetzcollector466 4 года назад +4

    I see stories like this all the time. But never Japan returning a Marine's dog tags after being dragged down some hole and tortured to death, as was their standard operating procedure.

    • @cornholius
      @cornholius 3 года назад

      Exactly, it's pretty one sided. I'll donate our family bring backs when I start hearing of American dog tags being returned to families. No excuses considering the service number on the tag guarantees an ID.
      I realize that japanese military personnel stationed on old bases in the pacific do just that. There are a couple japanese civilians that also repatriate personal American items lost in the war.
      I'd like to see the families of veterans return the items taken off soldiers.

    • @Peglegkickboxer
      @Peglegkickboxer 3 года назад

      Japan had a very different culture socially and militarily back then and took over a generation of Americanization for their society to change. Can't hold that against them in modern times.

  • @napoleonlempereur3021
    @napoleonlempereur3021 2 года назад +1

    ❤🇨🇵🇯🇵

  • @sweetbeeluvera1450
    @sweetbeeluvera1450 5 лет назад +1

    I wonder what life will be like today if the Japanese would have won the war? Leave ur thoughts below⬇️⬇️

  • @AndalusianPrince
    @AndalusianPrince 3 года назад

    so, they STOLE the flags like some trophy

  • @letterglettera9318
    @letterglettera9318 2 года назад

    No! The flag that they mentioned that was recovered from the Philippines should never be sent back to Japan. It should be burned! Let the soldiers (Japanese) soul rest in peace.

  • @ilmari9120
    @ilmari9120 2 года назад

    why "return" ?

  • @tiefblau2780
    @tiefblau2780 3 года назад +3

    I dont hold grudges for what America did during during WW2 for What IJ did too is of the same seed. I believe for any sides, when two of opposite trying to find a mutual understand there shall be, as long as both sides are will to give into one another to a certain extent. "Both"

    • @cornholius
      @cornholius 3 года назад

      Considering that Japan was the instigator, not sure how America gets tied in to being of the same seed. Not pointing the finger, stating facts.

  • @supremeguru5770
    @supremeguru5770 2 года назад

    Mista Miyagi yes Daniel son.

  • @fikryizuan6348
    @fikryizuan6348 7 лет назад +1

    i have this flag .can look my video

  • @amineikhlef3239
    @amineikhlef3239 4 года назад +1

    Flag World War Two japanese 1945 Us Army Yosegaki Hinomaru

  • @Krob039
    @Krob039 2 года назад

    So wrong for them to take!

    • @bluskytoo
      @bluskytoo 2 года назад +1

      thats why they are returned

    • @danykasilvernail
      @danykasilvernail 2 года назад

      @@bluskytoo I have one that I'm selling on ebay. If you want to purchase it and track the family down, let me know. I need the cash

  • @juancarloscuaocastellanos8813
    @juancarloscuaocastellanos8813 27 дней назад

    Somewhere, somebody is returning home...
    ruclips.net/video/iCmEoBQAzqg/видео.htmlsi=KszRh_-i1UrHsISa

  • @cornholius
    @cornholius 3 года назад

    Are dog tags taken off POW'S being returned to families in America for closure?

  • @bisdakjogja2251
    @bisdakjogja2251 5 лет назад +1

    I saw flag like that in jpan🇯🇵🙏🏾👊🏿

  • @frankless4672
    @frankless4672 3 года назад +1

    Who do we return Nazi flags to? 😬🙄

  • @sumanpaswan2615
    @sumanpaswan2615 5 лет назад

    c

  • @guythomas7051
    @guythomas7051 2 года назад

    My Grandfather fought in WW2 , was on a troopship bound for Singaporeo but luckily for him his ship was diverted because Singapore had fallen, so he missed out on being subjected to despicable Conduct by the Japanese Imperial Army. He then fought in Burma, in the Arakan and at Kohima and Imphal. Then down through Burma to Rangoon , seeing final action on the Sittang River. He was in an AA Battery until the Japanese ran out of aeroplanes he then became an infantryman. He rarely spoke of his war experiences, he suffered boughts of malaria up to his death. He did not speak well of the Japanese soldiers, the atrocities he saw and heard of he rarely spoke of. He did on occasion mention that he felt the Japanese, as a society did not accept their culpability for the countless war crimes they committed. Though individuals were tried and sentenced it is important to remember that they were the product the Japanese culture. Japan did not accept collective responsibility as the Germans did. The www2 Japanese Army is still revered by some. My Grandfather brought back from Burma a Japanese flag, we know from research it's one of those good luck flags. It has holes in it and what can only be bloodstains. He gave various explanations for how he got it ranging from swapping a packet of tea for it to "tickling a jap to death or it". My Grandfather was fortunate to have survived the war, some of his comrades did not. They were the victims of Japanese imperialism, not only them but 10000's like him and MILLIONS of Chinese. The flag he brought back is now part of my family history, a commemoration of his war service and will serve as a reminder in my family of the despicable conduct of some types of society.If there is a family or village in Japan that is missing this flag, it's absence will be reminder to them of the sort of society that existed in their country and what it did. It is ours and will never be returned. In the crudest of terms it's a war trophy..

    • @Krob039
      @Krob039 2 года назад +1

      You are wrong for that! How disrespectful! My Grandfather served in the war and saw terrible things, he still did not have this outlook! I feel so sorry for your family and their bitterness!

    • @allycbythesea7937
      @allycbythesea7937 Год назад

      My friends grandfather ( uk soldier) was tortured by the Japanese.they pulled out all his toenails. She said he suffered nightmares even till he died in his eighty’s.
      War is terrible end of story.

  • @charlest.velten6983
    @charlest.velten6983 5 лет назад +2

    Did any of these Japanese soldiers write on any of these flags. How they tortured and butchered their opponents on the battlefield ?

    • @emmettlester739
      @emmettlester739 4 года назад +3

      Did america talk about bombing innocent people and causing more wars afterwards? Mind your business. Why come here to hate? Only losers like you go out of your way to make every thing hateful.

    • @loetzcollector466
      @loetzcollector466 4 года назад

      @@emmettlester739 to answer your question yes. We talk about it all the time. While in Japan is part of teaching in the schools that most of the horrible things they did never actually happened.
      And that is every decent human being's business, you excepted.

    • @emmettlester739
      @emmettlester739 4 года назад +3

      @@loetzcollector466 Yeah america teaches kids in class today how in the past 15 years, they destroyed cities, killed innocent people, create ISIS, and fuel an unnecessary war... oh wait lol they don't. Its to defend freedom. i forgot

    • @danykasilvernail
      @danykasilvernail 2 года назад

      I have one of these flags. Blood spatter on it. I'm not returning it, trying to sell it to the highest bidder. The family wants it, they can buy it like everyone else on ebay.

  • @Aristocles22
    @Aristocles22 5 лет назад +4

    As much as I hate to say it, these shouldn't be returned until Japan acknowledges what it did in the war. How many Chinese, Filipinos, and other Asians get no closure? The closest thing they will get is Japan at least apologizing for every atrocity it committed, as Germany did.

    • @emmettlester739
      @emmettlester739 4 года назад +6

      That was some stupid shit you just said. Its not about a country and its history, its about the people and their families. America isn't clear from its own wrong doing in the past. Fuck outta here.

    • @Aristocles22
      @Aristocles22 4 года назад

      @@emmettlester739 Quit whining.

    • @loetzcollector466
      @loetzcollector466 4 года назад +1

      @@emmettlester739 I think the difference that you're either pretending not to understand or maybe actually are too stupid to understand is that America does acknowledge and is constantly coming to grips with what it did in World War II. Whereas Japan lies to its own people and the rest of the world about WW2 to this day.

    • @emmettlester739
      @emmettlester739 4 года назад +1

      Again you morons. This is about families. Not your brain dead patriotic views.

    • @Aristocles22
      @Aristocles22 4 года назад

      @@emmettlester739 There's nothing braindead about it.

  • @david.6505
    @david.6505 5 лет назад +4

    Japan has yet to acknowledge their war time atrocities. I cant sympathize with Japanese soldiers when they could have easily done terrible things like the things they did in Nanjing, which rival the Nazis.

    • @haitolawrence5986
      @haitolawrence5986 5 лет назад +7

      A completely understandable sentiment friend. I also know the history behind it. Still, I believe there is something very 'human' about this. Forgive, but never forget....

    • @fouronetwo813
      @fouronetwo813 4 года назад +3

      I don't know man. Two cities of vaporized civilians seems like fair punishment.

    • @loetzcollector466
      @loetzcollector466 4 года назад

      @@fouronetwo813 true, but we're talking more about acknowledgement and coming to grips as opposed to punishment.