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Aboard ship on way to States by Carr Hooper

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  • …lit up every window in the main building, and every window was crowded with the frantic, joyful, weeping, shouting, hysterical, faces of the 1800 internees confined to this one structure. “Here comes the officers” whispered my wife, and indeed five of the Japs came from their offices in the Education Building. They walked in twos behind our official interprettor and the Japanese appointed committemen who somehow managed to affect the surrender of four of the dirtest, stinkingest little rats we had to deal with. The fifth was Okeaka. “They’re going to surrender,” I said. “There’s Okeaka, she said, “let’s see him surrender.” We joined hands behind Okeaka and gleefully followed him into the crowd. He walked with his head down and slowly, going more slowly. And we lost sight of him temporirly in the scramble of people now trying to reach our soldiers who were now pulled up in the yard. Suddenly a trooper thrust me aside with a savage, “Drop it you bastard” and fired. Lieu
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