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The transcript of “At War45-02-0683Ten Escape From Tojosecond Half”, an episode of Words at War. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). Words at War plays Words at War free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.
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And if we had achieved the greatest degree of privacy, one can manage in an open compound, containing thousands of weak, weary, dispirited prisoners, and a goodly number of sharp-eyed Japanese guards, I mentioned the thing closest to my heart.
Steve? Huh? Have we a chance of escaping? Escaping? Oh, maybe Mac, I don't know. You can't be done, I suppose. What's the matter with you man? Oh, nothing. No more. Did you go? Hey, look.
It's magic. What? What? I got to walk. According to the laws of this camp, this sentence is carried out. Two of your squad of 10 have escaped. The other eight must die. Do you wish to be run for it?
Or do you have the courage to test the firing squad? Got the right to do this to us! Quiet! I won't! I can't do it! Those two men did not escape! You and two six destroyers!
Quiet! E.G. Me? Wait a minute! I was there, you and I! I was in the direction of the Imperial Japanese Army! Who you found them? The two men you said escaped? They were so weak, they fell into the Whittrendich!
Where are they? Bring them here at once! I can't. They're dead. Lieutenant Colonel Melnick. I shall never forget a little vignette that met my eyes every day at Kibana-to-wan, and again at another camp to which McCoy and I were later transferred to one at De Waal.
Picture a man walking around a compound enclosed in barbed wire. He massages his fingers constantly as he walks and stops now and then the massages toes. A jat guard follows him with his eyes, smile on his face. The man is suffering from very burying, maybe scurvy as well. The pain his joints and extremities is excruciating. Medicine
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