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Not the greatest evil.(Ryan)(Commentary on war)(Column)
SIXTY YEARS AGO, in the hot, fever-rotten Markham Valley of New Guinea, I looked into the calm, wide-open eyes of a man who was dying. He was a Japanese infantryman captured by our commandos, mortally wounded in the battle of Kaiapit. From his stretcher where Australian ambulance men had laid him beside the track, he made no answers to the questioning of our Intelligence people. Let no one, ever, in my heating, impugn the courage and devotion of the ordinary foot soldier of Japan.
I wasn't in all that great shape myself, as it happened, but at least I could walk; on a mate's supporting arm, I was hobbling down to the rough airstrip where an American aircraft was ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Not the greatest evil.(Ryan)(Commentary on war)(Column)