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Originally Posted by uncle phil
On April 3, 1946, Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines...
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A neighbor of mine was on that march. Quiet friendly man. Went by the name "Tiny" and it fit. 5'2" and 110lbs soaking wet. I knew him for about 3 years before I even knew he was in the war. One day I was in his house sharing some rot gut whiskey (he'd buy rot gut and pour it into a Black Velvet bottle) I saw a large collection of photos covering a wall, among them was one of him shaking hands with Pres. Truman. "You met Truman?!?" He went on to tell me an amazing story.
I had the highest respect for him until one day he told me the guys in Nam blew it. They were "pussies and hippies, who didn't care if they won or lost." If his generation fought that war it'd have been over in months not years. And the US would have been the clear victor. Whenever Nam came up he's call out "fucking nam pussies!"
He's not the first WWII vet I've met that seem to feel this way, but he was the most vocal about it.