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The Journal That Never Found Home | Boise News
For over 30 years, Ed Rekola has chased a quiet, haunting mission: return a WWII soldier’s journal to his family in Japan. His father found it buried in the Philippines in 1945 — filled with photos, clippings, and the raw, yearning thoughts of a young Japanese private who just wanted to go home. After his father’s death, Rekola took up the quest, only to face a labyrinth of bureaucratic silence. The Japanese Consulate claimed they’d found the family — thrilled but anonymous — yet never delivered contact. When they later said the family no longer wanted the journal, Rekola refused to hand it…
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