Japanese postcards lost in World War II slowly make their way back to families

From PBS NewsHour.

Eighty years after the end of World War II, postcards written to Japanese soldiers by their families were discovered in an Oregon museum.

The Obon Society, a nonprofit humanitarian organization, has now taken on the task of returning each letter to the sender’s descendants.

The goal is to provide the families a sense of closure and help show that healing in some form is possible after war ends, Obon Society President Rex Ziak says.

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