re: #89 bolivar

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.