Sword of Surrender

The "sword of surrender" a plain white samurai sword is in the museum at the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy, behind a huge P2 brass propeller, troops carriers in WWII my grandfather served on (the USS General Buckner, he used to joke they built so many ships they ran out of Navy names and started using Army ones, this a cut in half ship then augmented, like the "M.S. Mount Washington" on Lake Winnepeasauki, NH where then Vice President George Bush asked from the upper deck for a moment of silent prayer at the Wolfeboro dockside as he went to be President while President Ronald Reagan was having his colon operated on under anesthesia. The Doles have a former judge's place there.) The sword was recently mysteriously replaced after its theft in the 1970's, the thief, having died of cancer, said he did it to draw attention to the plight of veterans who have been given short shrift by the government(s?) in a note left with it on the steps a year or two ago.