Chapter 41 Summary

Hodges's mother receives a flag and a gold medal, which she places in the locker he prepared before his departure to Vietnam. She can't bring herself to reopen the locker after she places the items inside.

Mitsuko has a baby boy, which belongs to Hodges. It is too bad he never got to know his own child. It's seven years later and she has married and had two more children after Hitoshi. When he's seven, she takes him to Kin to see his father's monument. This is where they will pay their respects to him. She thinks this is the only thing she can do to ease her child's mind. He's half American. Her people consider Hitoshi to be an American if he's half American. The other children tease him and she doesn't know what else to do for him. Therefore, she takes...