Short article written by Pauline Fenelon describing the Japanese "senninbari", a soldier's talisman in the form of a white silk flag or sash that was retrieved from a fallen Japanese serviceman after the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1946. This war relic was found among the items donated to the Historical Society from the estate of Lawrence Yess, a Waseca County man who had served in the United States Marines during World War II and was among the survivors of the bloody island battle; photo of Lawrence Yess in his World War II U. S. Marine uniform.
