re: #120 Ford_Prefect

I don’t know any more than what is in the link.

I used to work in a bookstore where an older gentleman worked part time. He was well past retirement age and just worked there part time for something to do. I knew that he had been in WWII, but he never really wanted to talk about it. One day, at the end of our shifts it was raining, so I offered to give him a ride home (he lived within easy walking distance). I don’t remember how we started talking about it, but the next thing I knew he was telling me about how he had been captured by the Japanese and spent nearly two years in their prison. Much of that time was spent in solitary. I can’t imagine the strength that it took for him to come out of that sane. We owe his generation more than we could ever repay.

Amen brother. My Dad was in the Philipines and would never talk about what happened in the war. My Aunt told us that when he came home he would wake up screaming and that told me a lot. The terrible things they put our guys through were inexcusable. I don’t think the Japanese (got in trouble for calling them Japs) ever admitted or apologised for anything. The whole peace thing was a sham in my opinion - they should have investigated more and got the miserable little bas….ok let it go - Dad is gone and nothing will come of it. Yeah it will dammit - they did some terrible things and have never been held to account - much to my dismay.