How soon we forget.
There were about 35.
The family got a telegram on a Monday that one of the boys was killed, and that Thursday they got another telegram saying that his brother had been killed.
Army prisoner of war, Japan, at war\'s end -\'There was a family that lost two sons in World War II.
When I came out of the barracks and saw those beautiful colors for the first time I felt like crying \' U.
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How was I going to tell my mother this? You know what I mean?\' Marine veteran, Battle of Okinawa, on finding out he would be blind for life -\'After 31/2 years of starvation and brutal treatment, that beautiful symbol of freedom once more flies over our head Our camp tailor worked all night and finished our first American flag The blue came from a GI barracks bag, red from a Jap comforter and the white from an Australian bed sheet.
I tried to figure out what the hell I was going to do when I got home.
I wouldn\'t talk to people.
I kept mostly to myself. two months, I guess.
Army veteran, Saipan -\'So I had a hard...
We\'re going to have to pull back.\' Holy Jesus, there was howling and screaming They had naked women, with spears, stark naked \' U.
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He said, \'I think we\'re getting hit with a banzai.
Gower called us together.
Lt.
I had to use my helmet to keep bailing out, you know.
Navy torpedo bomber pilot, Guadalcanal -\'I remember it rained like hell that night, and the water was running down the slope into our foxholes.
I took more fellas in with me than I brought home that day, unfortunately.\' U.
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Army prisoner of war, Corregidor -\'They were firing pretty heavily at us...it\'s rather difficult to fly when you have a rosary in each hand.
Fifty men to a bucket of rice \' U.
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Food is scarcer now than anytime so far.
After I kicked him, I shot and killed him.\' Marine veteran, Battle of Guadalcanal -\'Marched to Camp I at Cabanatuan, a distance of six miles, which is the main prison camp here in the Philippines.
Rage does funny things.
I didn\'t shoot him
I went and kicked him in the head.
He\'s looking at me from a crawling position.
Navy seaman, Pearl Harbor -\'Rage is instantaneous.
Then I saw the Utah turn over.\' U.
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I did not know what it was, but the fellow with me said, \'That\'s a Jap plane, Jesus \' It went down and dropped a torpedo.
from the book: -\'I was talking to a shipmate of mine waiting for the motor launch, and all at once I saw a plane go over our ship.
But, it happened.
That is understandable, given what they saw.
Or perhaps, we were never told.
How soon we forget
