Saving Face

And shortly after that the American planes started coming over and letting us know that the war definitely was over, started dropping supplies to us. I remember one time, one day the B ni- ju kyu, which is B-29 in Japanese, come over and they dropped us a bomb rack that was loaded with a couple of forty-five gallon drums loaded together with a parachute on each end and the parachutes broke away and landed, happened to land on a little Japanese boy that was playing on the patty field. And, all of us who had gone out to retrieve what was in the drums felt pretty bad about it, that this kid had been killed, and the other, his playmates stood around laughing about it because they didn't want to lose face. That, that's the type of, of people that these were.