Both Uses of "vestige" in "Flags of Our Fathers"

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vestige
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Flags of Our Fathers
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At about the same time, Ira Hayes was shedding the vestiges of his Pima Indian boyhood at boot camp in San Diego.†
Chpt 4. *

vestiges = remaining traces
After all the serious practice, Ira Hayes still managed to recapture a vestige of his Pima youth on Camp Tarawa.†
Chpt 5.

vestige = remaining trace

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(1) (vestige)
a remaining trace (little bit of something) that was previously abundant

In biology, vestige (especially in the form vestigial) references a part of the body that is underdeveloped and no longer used, but which formally was an important body part. As in: Darwin believed vestigial organs are evidence of evolution.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)