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They had been told the Americans were monsters, demons with round eyes who would torture them, violate them, tear them apart for sport. The Japanese…

They were told the Americans would line them up against a wall and shoot them. They were told American soldiers were animals who would hurt…

They were told Americans would do unspeakable things to captured women. But when 37 Japanese women stumbled off a transport ship in San Francisco Bay,…

Some are still struggling. But all of us have been marked by this experience. We cannot pretend it didn’t happen. We cannot pretend we are…

They were told Americans would leave them to freeze in the snow, that enemy soldiers would laugh as they died. But when 150 German women…

They had been taught that capture meant death, that the Americans would show no mercy to Japanese women. So when flames began consuming their makeshift…

They had been taught that surrender meant death. Worse than death, the young Japanese women standing in the dusty courtyard of Camp Shelby, Mississippi in…

They told her Americans would never waste medicine on the enemy, that when you became a burden, they would finish you quickly, like putting down…

They were told to die before surrendering. Every Japanese woman in the camp had heard it a thousand times. Death before dishonor, death before capture….