"If you fell, you were dead!"
"There were things you didn't want to see! There was the captive
that the Jap trucks and tanks had rolled over until he was just a flat
'silhouette' in the pavement."
"The heat was terrible!"
"The Jap kept poking me with his bayonet; fear gave me the strength to
go on."
"To have a close friend a buddy to help you might be the difference
between survival and death."
"As the days passed, the compounds holding captives at night became
filthy; sick and dying almost filled the areas. The dead were not
being buried. The terrible odor was sickening."
"Sometimes when the compounds were crowded, they marched us all
night."
"I had 10,000 teeny blisters on the bottom of my feet."
"The compound was full of people a lot of dust, dirt and filth; I
just fell into the dirt and slept."
"People were going crazy they were 'nuts!' sometimes talking to
themselves, sometimes screaming!"
"We all had dysentery, and there was no water. Usually there was no
food."
"We finally reached the train a few box cars with doors closed in
the hot sun they were stifling hot like a furnace.
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