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Keiko Ziak, a co-founder of the Obon Society (right), along with Board Members Bethany Glenn (center-left), and Rex Ziak, co-founder of the Obon Society (center-right), discuss many of the messages of the “Good Luck Flag,” known as Yosegaki Hinomaru, with Alan Dierking, as the flag was brought home from WWII by his father, Staff Sgt. Russell A. Dierking, is now being returned during a meeting with staff members of the Astoria-based Obon Society at the Columbia River Maritime Museum in Astoria, Oregon, on March 7, 2025. The Obon Society’s mission is to facilitate the return of captured WWII flags to Japanese descendants of the soldiers who carried them off to war as send-off gifts. (Air National Guard photo by John Hughel, Oregon Military Department Public Affairs)
| Date Taken: | 03.07.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 04.17.2025 19:02 |
| Photo ID: | 8980478 |
| VIRIN: | 250307-Z-CH590-1169 |
| Resolution: | 6192x4128 |
| Size: | 4.12 MB |
| Location: | ASTORIA, OREGON, US |
| Web Views: | 8 |
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WWII ‘Good Luck Flag’ transfer offers closure while honoring reconciliation
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