Farewell to Manazar

Papa burned the flag and many old documents because he didn't want to be found with anything that would make it look like he still had a connection to Japan.

That night Papa burned the flag he had brought with him from Hiroshima thirty-five years earlier. It was such a beautiful piece of material, I couldn’t believe he was doing that. He burned a lot of papers too, documents, anything that might suggest he still had some connection with Japan.