The Things Our Fathers Saw
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How soon we forget. Or perhaps, we were never told. That is understandable, given what they saw. But, it happened. From the book:-I was talking to a shipmate of mine waiting for the motor launch, and all at once I saw a plane go over our ship. I did not know what it was, but the fellow with me said, Thats a Jap plane, Jesus! It went down and dropped a torpedo. Then I saw the Utah turn over. ~U.S. Navy seaman, Pearl Harbor-Rage is instantaneous. Hes looking at me from a crawling position. I didnt shoot him; I went and kicked him in the head. Rage does funny things. After I kicked him, I shot and killed him. ~Marine veteran, Battle of Guadalcanal-Marched to Camp I at Cabanatuan, a distance of six miles, which is the main prison camp here in the Philippines. Food is scarcer now than anytime so far. Fifty men to a bucket of rice! ~U.S. Army prisoner of war, Corregidor-They were firing pretty heavily at us...its rather difficult to fly when you have a rosary in each hand. I took more fellas in with me than I brought home that day, unfortunately. ~U.S. Navy torpedo bomber pilot, Guadalcanal-I remember it rained like hell that night, and the water was running down the slope into our foxholes. I had to use my helmet to keep bailing out, you know. Lt. Gower called us together. He said, I think were getting hit with a banzai. Were going to have to pull back. Holy Jesus, there was howling and screaming! They had naked women, with spears, stark naked! ~U.S. Army veteran, Saipan-So I had a hard... two months, I guess. I kept mostly to myself. I wouldnt talk to people. I tried to figure out what the hell I was going to do when I got home. How was I going to tell my mother this? You know what I mean? ~Marine veteran, Battle of Okinawa, on finding out he would be blind for life-After 3½ years of starvation and brutal treatment, that beautiful symbol of freedom once more flies over our head! Our camp tailor worked all night and finished our f
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