Margery Hop Wong (centre) and her family holding a portrait of her brother Yuen Hop, in Daly City, California. — ©2025 The New York Times Company
When Margery Hop Wong bade her older brother goodbye in 1943, she was just a 12-year-old girl who loved it when he took her for joy rides in his used convertible around the apple orchards their family worked.
Yuen Hop left their home in Sebastopol, California, a small town 88.5km north of San Francisco, at 19 to join the US Army. His little sister never saw him again.
