[InvisibleChurch]

[WOBBLY BOB]

I can see why he wouldn’t talk about it.

[mylife]

An Amazing Time Capsule.

[Dacula]

bump for later read.

[dangerdoc]

Look at the comments on the bottom, the site needs to be freeped.

[Deb]

The author James Clavell was a Japanese POW and often spoke of how grateful he and all the prisoners were to America for dropping the bomb and bringing their horror to an end.

[martin_fierro]

Obi-Wan managed to keep a Stiff Upper Lip.

[WVKayaker]

I now live at the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Gulfport, MS. We have some guys that "been there, done that". They rarely speak much about it!

Check out the article next month (if you remember) on a fellow named Maxwell! (Shot down in Pacific!) I'll try to link it next month, but you can review some stories here...

If you or a friend/family member are any former Veterans, career or "war theater" over 60 years of age (I spent two years on a tin can in the South China Sea, 66-68), there is a short waiting list here. The price is reasonable, and the place is quite good! Single rooms, mainly, but married quarters (both must be former vets!) Everybody has a view of the Gulf of Mexico, from their balcony or patio!

3 hots and much more than a cot!

[M. Thatcher]

The family member didn't want the drawings on her wall due to the horrible subject matter, but i think this particular one, depicting the POWs singing Christmas carols, is beautiful:

[shorty_harris]

The article says this drawing is of a British doctor, but the inscription identifies the surgeon as L/Col Dunlop (Edward “Weary” Dunlop) of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF), a famous WWII Australian surgeon and war hero.

[Tijeras_Slim]

A large number of NM National Guard were captured in Bataan, and one used scraps of cloth to make an American flag which he hid for many years, knowing that if it were found he would be killed. When the Japanese abandoned the camp at the end of the war, he hoisted it up the flag pole. It was later discovered that it may have kept the Navy from strafing the camp, not knowing it was a POW facility.

[DuncanWaring]

A more detailed description of the absolute depravity that made up the implementation of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere:

The Knights of Bushido-Hardbound: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes

The author acted as Deputy Judge Advocate General for the British Army of the Rhine, giving legal advice on the prosecution of war criminals in the British zone of occupied Germany.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Most of the heroes of WWII refused to talk about their experiences.

[SueRae]

I read “Unbroken” months ago. Louis Zamperini’s story told me all I needed to know. They deserved the nukes they got.

And some handwring over pint panties put on prisoners.

[silverleaf]

we had a family friend who survived the Bataan death march, to this day my mother will not own a Japanese car

When I watched the movie "Paradise Road" about the women who survived death camp and formed a women's choir, I started reading the back story of some of the characters portrayed, and found the stories written by the nurses who were captured during the evacuation of Singapore

Amazing stuff, some humans are made of

Betty Jeffrey
http://www.angellpro.com.au/Jeffrey.htm