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Re:World War II in the Pacific, narrated by my grandpa by hkmurakami on Thursday May 29, 2014 @04:22AM (#7815282)
My maternal grandfather was in the Japanese Army, and while I do not know the details, spent six years in the mines in Russia.

I could never get myself to ask what his time was like. Even when he was diagnosed with cancer and I knew that he didn't have much more time to live, I still felt that I could not do him the cruelty of digging up those memories from him.

:(

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Re:World War II in the Pacific, narrated by my grandpa by rdtsc on Thursday May 29, 2014 @09:53AM (#7816204)
That is very sad. A lot of prisoners of war and internal political prisoners were sent to mine uranium. It was basically a slow death sentence.
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