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To: JDoutrider

My uncle also. He wrote a book about it, Late summer of 1941 and my war with Japan. He is still alive, and lots of family attends the memorial march.

The book is so understated it is almost ridiculous. He covers the bomb on Nagasaki (which he saw) in just 3 or 4 sentences. He went to the end of the war in their camps. He worked in the mines, was beaten, had TB, beriberi and pellagra, was bombed, had bowel surgery with just a shot of novacaine, and watched his friends die.

When I read the book, I can't understand how he survived. I wouldn't have lived two days. It's incredible.


12 posted on 03/29/2006 10:52:57 PM PST by I still care ("For it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: I still care

Considering what they endured, it's amazing that there are any Bataan survivors still alive!


20 posted on 03/30/2006 4:39:02 PM PST by CarolinaGOP ("A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." - Dwight D. Eisenhower)
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