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Yamma Nai(Continued)orders arid managed to win the respect — or at least some degree at consideration — of some of the Jap guard*. But never did he have any desire to become what prisoners called an “empire builder” — those weak-spined individuals who strained themselves to win favor by working too hard, even Informing on fellow prisoners.“When the Japs finally had to tell us the war was over they did so in a manner tliat would make it apear they had volunteered to cease fighting in the interest of humanity, said Wood. “For a short time after work in the copper mines ended, we were put to work in the rice fields. That was more endurable.’*In a recent reunion of prisoners of Bataan at Lehigh Acres. Wood met Col. Abraham Garfinkle, now 80 years old. who trudged by his side all the way in the 100 m i 1 e Death March.t“Although the colonel was an old man, comparatively speaking, at the time of the march, never once did he whimper, said Wood. “Today he's as spry as he was then.tt!Upon returning to the United States, Wood was assigned to spend JO days with an Army psychiatrist, who found no ill 1J mental affect*. Like thousands of 11 other Americans, he had suffered from dysentery And still has to be careful about what he eats in order to avoid an upset stomach.After being mustered out of military service he completed his 11 law education at Stetson Univer-then came to Sarasota from el Memphis, Teroi, in 1931. He and Mrs. Wood, who have three children, met at McDill Air Field, where she was a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps, and were married in 1946. He resigned as a municipal judge in Sarasota in 1959 to devote more time to private law practice.1rIeyiDoes he ever wake up In the middle of the night with a bad dream about the Death March?“It’s a closed chapter in my life, he said “And by closed Iee really mean CLOSED.
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Sarasota News
Sarasota, Florida, US
Sun, Sep 03, 1961
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