Arnold,
Here is a flag that I picked up one fateful day for its
owner, a Jap by the name of HOKA Kenichi. I have given Mother
and Dad each one. You can do what you want with the flag. I
could get fifty dollars for it anytime, and sailors and merchant marine
men overhere will pay $75-$100 on on up depending upon how bad
they want it. This is one of the better silk flags, and are
hard to find. I have been lucky I guess, because I have found
about ten of these flags. I have given four away to the General,
Colonel, and a major (the General pulled a fast one and got two,
damnit), however I kept the best ones. About four have been
cotton, torn and bloody, and I gave them to the GIs that were
with me and did not yet have one. Inclosed is a translation.
Leonard
[Written nearly vertically in the margin is seminary seminary, probably Arnie's handwriting after having received the note, since he was the one interested in becoming a missionary.]
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