The guilt

Watching this doc and feeling the guilt that the two veterans had towards their actions reminded me of my Mom, she is Japanese and about 15 years ago at her work, one of the ladies she worked with brought in a samauri sword for her to look at, my Mom asked her where she got it and the worker told her that her Father was an enlisted man during WW2 and when the US forces had overtaken a small town in Japan and after the officers took all they wanted, the enlisted men were "allowed" to pilfer what they wanted. The only thing the workers Father took was a Japanese sword, and he had felt guilty from the day he took it away from a house he ventured into. My Mom looked at the handle and removed the grip material to get to the markings and found it to be over 500 years old, with a Family name engraved on the forged metal handle area.
My Mom had her brother over in Japan make some inquiries and found the family that the sword belonged to, it was a family heirloom handed down over the centuries, not a samauri, but a ceremonial sword. The old veteran made contact with the family and flew to Japan to return the sword and apologize for his actions. The Co-worker said her Father's guilt had wrecked him for years and that after returning it his conscience was clean and he was a much happier person.