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Show Harold W. Poole pri13 2001 conditions of the compound and out in the open sunshine which is a deterrent to a lot of germ and stuff, too, as you know. And, so, I felt a little better about that. But we did have a lot of pestilence. There were flies continually because we had open latrines. And they called them the straddle trench in the army. You know, just dig a big trench about a foot wide, or so, and a foot or two deep and long. And then you used it, as it suggests, straddling. When it got full, we'd dig another one alongside, and throw the dirt over on top of this other one. But there was always a continually big swam of flies coming out of there. You know, it was propagating flies all the time. And, so, we had flies constantly. We had mosquitos, and bedbugs, and body lice at night. And, then, we didn't have enough food, you know. It was not too adequate and everything. And we were raising sweet potatoes mostly on this farm. And the Japanese got the potatoes, and we got the vines. So we had a little better soup out of the vines, and that type of thing, see. But, anyway, in this camp I wanted to--I thought, well, now, if the Lord sees fit for me to have a bible, I'd sure like to get a Book of Mormon, or be able to read one. At the time I'd never read it completely in my life. I'd read parts of it, you know. And, so, I prayed about that. And don't you know in this camp I ran across a fellow. His name was Franklin East, and he was from Arizona. And he'd been on a mission before the war, and he had his Book of Mormon with him. And he let me read that right there in the prison camp. Isn't that something? WIN: Yeah. HAR: Well, shortly after this, they were sending groups to Japan. And I thought, well, that's from the frying pan into the fire, to go to Japan, you know. But then I thought it over, and I 28 |
