March 18, 2005

My So-Called Enemies

Three Brothers, Nagasaki

My story begins in 1941 when I enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. A 19-year-old high-school graduate full of anger toward the Japanese, I wanted to get to the South Pacific. However, the Marine Corps had other plans, and I soon found out that, instead of a rifle, the only thing I would aim at the Japanese would be a camera.

Four years later, while en route to Japan with the invasion forces, I heard about the atomic bombs. ...

As a U.S. Marine