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SGT David A. 'Cowboy' Groth
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Thank you for the great history share.
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Sgt Wayne Wood
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Being a POW... words fail me...
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Sgt Wayne Wood
Sgt Wayne Wood
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I remember spending time at a small Aussie/NZ compound at a place called Sembawang in Singapore... this would have been the mid-'70's...

Didn't know about Changi then because i was young & stupid... i always look back at that time as a missed opportunity to pay my respects.

If i had known then...
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SGT English/Language Arts Teacher
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I feel the same way. I was deployed to Germany and didn't visit the cemeteries I should have. "Youth is wasted on the young" as George Bernard Shaw quipped.
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Sgt Wayne Wood
Sgt Wayne Wood
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SGT (Join to see) truer words were never spoken... right up there with "... if i'd known i was gonna live this long i'd've taken better care of myself ..."
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LTC Orlando Illi
LTC Orlando Illi
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My Uncle Angelo liberated the POW compounds in the Philippines. He told me that the men in his unit were just speechless as they saw the condition of the survivors of the Bataan Death March.
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SMSgt Thor Merich
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Interesting. It's tough to imagine the pain and misery those guys suffered.
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It is a miracle any of them survived.
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