Taken Prisoner
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Taken Prisoner
Interviewer: So can you, can we continue
now maybe with the....you're in
Hong Kong and prisoner of war.
Okay. I was captured and we, must have
been several hundred of us started,
we started marching up to the peak.
A very tough march because we never,
we had those same clothes on,
we never had anything since,
for 18 days or however long we were fighting,
and not the proper food -
dog biscuits and this sort of thing.
Once in awhile we'd get into a home that
had been evacuated and we'd find some
liquor or something to eat or whatever.
Well we got up to the top of the
peak and it's about midnight,
Christmas day, and the place, the building
we were in was quite a big home I guess,
but I kicked the bricks and stuff aside
that had been bombed out,
put my boots under my head and
put my eyes down, and somebody had lit a
candle and I thought you know,
I've seen Christmas at better times and
that candle reminds me of it.
And I'm sure I just fell asleep,
about maybe 10 minutes,
"Everybody up!" and they marched us
right back down to the bottom of the, of the.
We went into another home and we were in,
I don't know how many, but the room
would be maybe 12 by 12,
and we sat down and somebody else sat
between our legs, between our legs,
between our legs, and by the time they got
finished they were jumping in to get in.
We were so tight, and so crowded in there,
and some people had to relieve
themselves and that was the worst.
They had to sit in it, we had to smell it.
Interviewer: I can't imagine.
We were about six days marching
around Hong Kong,
I don't know where or why,
but marching and marching,
and drinking water was a problem.
There was viaducts coming down the drain,
that threw the water off the mountain.
Dead bodies floating through them,
Chinese, and we're drinking it.
You know I, somehow or another,
I found in one of these homes,
I got two cans of milk, that (inaudible ) milk,
I forget what you call it,
and it just made you thirstier.
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