Japanese sketch book 1949 of Exceptional Quallty

I hate to damage this mint sketchbook by scanning, so i was careful. A 1946 incription is from Lieutenant Fulton in memory of Gladys 1946. Someone this skilled at that particular time probably had to make lots of gifts like this gorgeous booklet. The circumstances are unknown here and I wasn't born then, of course, but the horror and agony of war strikes me. i hope anyone seeing this bows their head and realizes the complete futility of war, something we seem to forget every ten years or so. There is much more hate now than in the years during Vietnam, Our last major debacle which killed 55,000 American and well over one million Asians before we lost. You know who I blame for the current war, whch is just getting started while percoluting 8 months already. We dropped two bombs to end the war with Japan an uninmagible horror. This has to stop but fear it will not. 1946 pages from a japanese sketch book,inscribed. Collection Jim Linderman / Dull Tool Dim Bulb