Returning the Sword: How a Japanese Sword of War Became a Symbol of Friendship and Peace depression from very small

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Returning the Sword: How a Japanese Sword of War Became a Symbol of Friendship and Peace depression from very smallIn 1945, just after the end of World War II, Captain Orval Amdahl brought home a Japanese sword as a souvenir of war. Sixty eight years later, he gave it back. Orval Amdahl grew up in rural Minnesota and enlisted in the Marines during World War II. In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the war. Soon after, Orval's division was sent to keep the peace in Nagasaki, and the