A Blanket of Gratitude A red blanket of comfort followed Luther Prunty through the hell of WWII Japanese concentration camp survival. As he nears the century mark of life, home in Jacksboro, Texas, he still treasures the same blanket. At one time the Chinese red blanket offered him the simple …
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(3) Indonesia, "Indie" August 13, 1945, My "Friends" Waited
Sixty-six years ago, a tense world waited. Civilians and POW’s held in Japanese slave labor operations and concentration camps continued in a daze of starvation and deprivation. Deaths accelerated by the day. Children, women and men held in the camps did not know that on: August 6, the Atom bomb …
Cynicism & Hope: No Help Generations after WWII
Papa never talked about his survival of Jappen kampen Japanese Concentration Camps (during WWII in Indonesia). What a legacy, and an understandable legacy of keeping secrets. And if needs are kept secret, then help is not expected either. Here are the roots of secrets and not expecting help for …