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;ONLY THE WILLSlt;(Continued^ From Page one)» i ■ *tlify4 1 ¥ ‘t00*SiVnFEJil\\arlt;utining - their stay. r ; • m spite of their healthy appearance, you could tell the strain tad been telling-; At least three nf the , men’s . ,hair was »streaked /ithvgray prematurely. .To all, death had become such a common oecurance that it meantlittle, Only the “will to live” kept; many men * going. I jrSaid Sgt, Ennis: “I’ve seen men just give up; and say “It’s not worth it'. •! The next day they were dead; It's not hard to die •When- you're tired of living. I know„that a, lot of us—had we known in the. beginning what we'd have to go through—wouldn’t be Here today. We’d have given up |too.”“We were still fighting, even though we were prisoners,” said Sgt. Frazier. “We slowed down production in every way we could. Every time we could Jam their machines without getting caught,W(i did it.”“I’ll never forget the Jap reaction to the atomic bomb,” Frazier said. , “They came running to us asking us to help them do some-. «-thing about it. lt;*Yoif re Americans’ | \ \ they aid, ‘tell us what to do to defend ourselves’. They didn’t seem to know that us American ri^nners were just as surprised by the atomic bomb as they were.” The Japs first started to dig tunnels in the hills, Frazier said, but quickly abandoned this project when surrender negotiations were begun.Most of the men agreed that working kept their minds occupied, and helped them pull through. They all agreed that the food they got was “terrible”, but that during the late stage of their imprisonment they began getting ^ Red Cross packages which the ^Jap£ previously had been using themselves.“We got only about three packs of cigarettes all the while were j there,” said Sgt. Simmons. “And j that was plenty tough.” (The six liberated prisoners are ready to leave the hospital now | j for “temporary duty” at home for 45 days or more.rtetciXcV1£
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Thomasville Times Enterprise
Thomasville, Georgia, US
Fri, Oct 19, 1945
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