"The
cherry blossoms are just now coming into their own, and the most beautiful
season of the year is upon us. We went
out to Atami yesterday to see the cherries and the most popular sea resort in
Japan. One wonderful thing about the
bombings is that they have left completely intact such places as this and
Kamakura. The more you read up on Japan
and actually see these places, the better it gets."
--Letter
from John Howes, Japan, to my father, Winfield, Kans., Tuesday, April 8,
1947. He was a fellow graduate of the
Navy language program in Japanese.
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