In August we were all working in Toyama
on the foundries and then all of a sudden,
this was in the middle of the day,
“Spido, Spido, Spido, Campo, Campo!”
I mean everything had to have an
“O” on the end of it, you know.
So we were all marched back to the camp
and we were left in the enclosure what
we called the parade square.
We were there for quite a while and
one of the guys with good eyesight was
looking down and everybody,
all these Japanese were bowing and
bowing and up and bowing.
I guess that was when the
Emperor was speaking to them.
And then the interpreter, an elderly fellow,
came out and said that the war was over
in Japan and Japan had quit.
Then they brought in a live pig and
we started to eat a little bit better.
But you should have seen the guys trying
to catch this pig, in the shower room.
I think they must have put some grease on it.
And then shortly after that airplanes came
over and started to drop food to us.
And one plane came over which was sad and
he went to sweep and he was down too
close and one of his wings hit the ground,
flipped him over and killed him.
Just a young fellow too, about 19 years old.
In fact, he had a letter in his pocket that the
doctor read that he was on his first and
that he’d be home soon and
all of this and here he was dead.