| OCR Text |
Show JAMES PATTERSON ugu t 15, 2001 I want them to see you love their camps, especially when we know the camp commanders. So we started singing that. And, boy, we were singing loud. When we got up there, why, the Japanese would come out. I guess they thought they may have been taken. But we just walked from there back in our camp, and it was still raining heavy. So we come back into camp. I'll always remember that flag. When they put this on at this thing it just reminded us of some of those first days, and it reminded me a lot of when we was back in the states. At Fort Douglas every morning we had a detail that would go out and put the flag up, and every evening a detail went out and took the flag down. We respected the flag. So that's how that came about. When this kid-he went out with this detail. I missed the detail. And this is where I had my other story. Talk about a faith promoting incident. I was healthy, and had worked all day out in the rice paddies. I come in that night and went out to the latrine. They had a pathway to go out by the latrines away from the camp. And I seen this wallet down at the side of the walk, and I picked it up. I didn't know the guy. It had his name in it. I went and found out what barracks he was in. There were about seven barracks there. I found him, and I said, "I found your wallet along the pathway to the latrine. He said, "Oh, I'm glad you found it." He said, "I didn't know what happened to it." He said, "There's no money in it. There's just pictures of my family, and that's worth more." I said, "Yes." So he says, "I smuggled in a couple of bananas today. Why don't you take one and put it on your meal tonight." I said, "Well, I 22 |
