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“The Green Line”
Mr. Nystad recalls about a time a Turkish soldier was asleep on the job and his officer walked up to him and shot him for his actions.
Return to Holland
Mr. Carter talks going back to Holland and how emotional it was.
Fighting a war
Mr. Carter talks going ‘house to house combat' and what it was like to go through a field with heavy fighting.
After he was shot
Mr. Carter talks about what happened after he was shot and how he was put in an area where you were suppose to go to die.
Doing what Must be Done for Remembrance
Mr Ewing holds no grudge towards the government that blindly sent him in a hopeless situation and explains what he does to make sure it does not happen again.
Feelings Towards the Japanese People
Though he was taken prisoner by the Japanese and not always treated in the best of ways, Mr Ewing explains why he does not hold a grudge toward the people of Japan.
Return to Civilian Life
War camps and illness weakened Mr Ewing physically but they did not affect his mind and his return to normal life.
The War Ends in Japan
Even when the war ended, things were still somewhat dangerous in POW camps but some guards were good to the prisoners.
Trying to Keep Up with the War while in POW Camp
News about the progress of the war was hard to get by in POW camps but it still seeped in from time to time.
The Shinegawa POW Hospital
As Mr. Ewing recounts the conditions he and the other sick men lived in, we understand more about Japanese war prisons.
Surviving Tuberculosis as a POW
Mr Ewing explains how he contracted tuberculosis while being held in a Japanese prisoner of war camp and survived thanks to a comrade’s homemade contraption.
The Japanese Guards in Tokyo
Mr. Ewing describes the guards in the slave labour camps in Tokyo and tells a story about the only time he received extraordinary punishment.
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