Word Of Surrender

Our Commander, our Commanding Officer at the time, he was in the pillboxes around the mountains from us and he sent a wire. He sent a runner up to tell us that we were, the island commander was going to surrender and he would probably be tomorrow. He was probably going to surrender tomorrow. We knew a day ahead of time that he was going to surrender. Maybe some knew before that, I didn’t know before that. I just thought well, it wouldn’t be long. I thought we’d be taken prisoner and we’re not going to be that long. I thought maybe six months at the most, you know. Six months at the most to be taken prisoner. I didn’t, I was confident that we’d, that the war was going to end. I didn’t think the Japanese had that much force, you see. Or we didn’t have that much force in there either. So after we got taken prisoner, a lot we didn’t have. We didn’t have the force to even think that the war was going to only last six months.