(This is Part 2 of “The Oda Boys”) V-mails (Victory mail) slowly made their way to barrack 4-5-E in Topaz from my mother’s foster brother Harry in the 442 in Italy: June 30, 1944 To Eddie (Harry’s brother), 4-5-D, Topaz, Utah From: Harry, Co. L, 442 I haven’t heard from you in so […]
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The Oda Boys
(From a few photos, a few letters, and a few stories told over lunch with my mom and aunt, I have pieced together the story of the Oda boys. If at times my imagination ventures into the realm of fiction, please forgive me.) Sometime around 1932, Bachan went to the funeral of a family friend […]