Then, in an instant, thirty-two-year-old Harry Madokoro from Watsonville, California—Harry who had been the former chief of police at the Poston War Relocation Camp, who had encouraged Rudy and a dozen other young men at Poston to enlist, who had promised Rudy’s mother he would take care of him, who nursed him when he was hungover, who had always gone out at the front of K Company when danger lurked, who was the only son and sole living relative of his mother waiting for him in room 13-G, Block 213, in the barracks at Poston, Arizona—stepped on a mine and simply disappeared in a shower of mud,
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