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Show JAMES PATTERSON u u t 15, 2001 in our camp that-we found some cornfields up there that the farmers had. A guy slipp d out under the barbed wire at night and went up there and checked it out. It was full of corn still on the cob. Well, there was two or three guys from Tennessee with a tank outfit. And they said, "Boy, that would make good whiskey." Well, five or six of them went out that night and got gunnysacks full of this com. They brought it back down through the barbed wire fence and back into camp, and they got it ready. And they brewed home brewed whiskey like they had at home. And everybody was drinking that stuff. Well, the J aps found out about it. So they come in and they took all the whiskey they had, and poured maybe a gallon of gasoline in with-because could use that alcohol in cars and everything. The Japs, well they would just throw it away. So, you'd take a drink of that. And the sergeant said, "Oh, come on, Pat. Take a swallow. It's not bad." So I took a swallow of that, and it was just like I'd siphoned the car all night. I told them, "You guys are going to die." They said, "Oh, no." A lot of them did, though. They got so sick on it. These American ways we live. So, that was our introduction. Well, you know, you look back and how things turned out. Whether we was up there-coming up we stopped several places-and they let us pick breadfruit off the trees if we were hungry. And, you know, two of us could have hid out just as easy, and not got back on those trucks. The trucks would have went on, and we could have went out in the hills and lived with the Philippinos. We could have stayed out of sight and not cause any trouble until we were liberated. 33 |
