[chilepepper]

My grandfather made it through the death-march and spent the rest of WWII in various Japanese POW camps... it was not a pleasant experience and he very was lucky to survive the war. He tracked down some of his guards after the war and had them charged as war criminals...

Its not that the Japanese treated POW's with special cruelty, they just treated them a little worse than their own low-end conscripts!

[I still care]

My uncle was in the Bataan March and wrote a book on it, called Late summer of 1941 and my war with Japan. The story he tells is amazing. He talks about being operated on without anesthesia and being beaten by Japanese Guards in the same tone of voice that I would ask what's for dinner.

He was ferried around for labor also, and escaped death several times simply because he was in the right places at the right times. He always talks at family reunions and such. After hearing him, I couldn't understand how anyone could survive it at all.

[tiki]

Are you from NM?