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| | NOVA | Sinking the Supership | Behind the Scenes: A Personal Quest Fulfilled | PBS |
 | | Ishida passed away in July 2005, but the day before he entered the hospital for the last time, I was able to meet with him and pass him a copy of our program. |
 | | He had known that it would be broadcast in the United States, and he had hoped that in telling his story, people would understand the passion of patriotism, the supreme sacrifice of the sailors he had admired who had not survived as he had, and most importantly, the brutality of war. |
 | | However, the Yamato continues to maintain a profound hold on the Japanese, serving as a haunting metaphor of contradiction: the purity in elegiac death, the tragedy of lives wasted; a symbol of industry and excellence, a somber reminder of the failure of war. |
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