Grenade

On April 1 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone he just wants to find his family and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will change his life forever.