[jmacusa]

May God bless your uncle and all those who suffered in that unspeakable atrocity. I know all too well what those f'ing barbarian Japs did to those men. I pray to God your uncle didn't suffer too long.Japan's conduct in WW2 often escapes notice and now the bastards are signing a new song about how they were the victims.My late-father-in-law made it off Iwo Jima but barely, suffering a leg wound that got him the hell out of there. The bombs made it possible for him and millions of other guys to see their next birthday. My father-in-law came home, married my mother-in-law and had a bunch of daughters , one of them being my wife. I'll never forget nearly reaching through the phone to tear the guts out of some stupid peace nik who wrote a letter to the local paper calling the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings ''acts of terror by the United States'' The dumb b!tch even put her number in the published letter. After I got done with her she never did that again. I've been an avid reader and amateur historian of WW2 since I was 12. I'm 57. I knew of the "Death March''and who Claus von Stauffenberg was before pretty much before my whole generation only learned about in high school.

[Mark17]

May God bless your uncle and all those who suffered in that unspeakable atrocity.

JM, as far as I know, he died of cereberal malaria, on the death march. My mother told me, that while her and dad were watching news reel footage, that dad was firmly convinced he had seen his brother in the films. Who knows for sure.

Temu, I was in Davao, Mindanao a few months ago. I liked New Bataan, in Compastela Valley, northeast of Davao City, but it floods too much. I will be moving to Davao City soon. It is not dangerous, like many try to say. It is one of the safest places in the Philippines. Now, in western Mindanao, it is not safe, but the east is good. I have been there many times. You can google earth Davao City and see it, right on the beach. I can't wait.

[yldstrk]

My dad was in a Jap concentration camp in interior China for 3 years after the Japs invaded China where he lived in the European community with his parents. He was 10.