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16-317 Garand Picture of the Day
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose
There are no great men, only great challenges that ordinary men are forced by circumstances to meet.
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What a way to end the war, sitting in the dirt naked and watching the slow demise of your army.
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Obviously the prisoner is undergoing a radical paradigm shift, but I can't help imagining a thought bubble over his head with
'Well, that didn't go as planned'
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More to the point of the shame he has brought on the family now for being captured alive such was the Japanese
Armed Services mind set of the day in WWII.
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What a way to end the war, sitting in the dirt naked and watching the slow demise of your army.
There are a lot worse ways.
Lying in the mud trying to shove your unravelling guts back into your abdomen while screaming in pain and terror as all life drains out of you comes to mind (witnessed it).
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Originally Posted by
Paul S.
There are a lot worse ways.
Yes, I knew someone would come up with an awesome verbal image like that.
I spent my life in the army too...thank you...
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Was it mainly Japanese soldiers who also happened to be members of the small Japanese Cristian community that tended to surrender at the end of the war in 1945 or was there no particular pattern to it?
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