Show J I S Some e D Day y Well We'll WiRe Wipe the Sl Slate t Clean THERE THERE HERE is ts only one good reason for the American people to remember remember re- re member December t 7 1941 and aid and that is to keep everlastingly uppermost in th their ir minds until t the e sullied page of history is wiped clean the infamous treachery and barbarity of our Japanese Japanese Japa Japa- nese iese foes P Pearl Pan r Harbor was typical of the Japanese mind and national conscience Without warning warping the c conscience conscience or n enc or rather lack of Japs struck That was was' wasa a deed beyond the pale of international law JAwor or of civilized society It was an act of barbarism It was a foretaste of the kind of ruthlessness and savagery we have had bad to contend with all during the months of conflict with the Japanese We dont don't want to forget Pearl Harbor We Ve dont don't want to forget that deed of infamy We Ve dont don't want to forget Japanese barbarity brutality and savagery savagery not not until weve we've wiped the Whole slate clean from Pearl Harbor on n down through the score of infamy to th the last f foul ul deed that the last resisting Japanese can be expected expect d to commit So its it's a good thing t to remind ourselves of f Pearl H Harbor toda today just as it is a good thing from time to time to have our attention called to continuing Jap atrocities such atrocities such ch as the one related just the other day by year old T D. D R. R Rose now home with his parents in Houston Tex after two and a half years as a prisoner of the Jap Japanese nese His story is a good goodone goodone goodone one to retell on the annive anniversary sary of Pearl Harbor Veteran of Bataan and Corregidor Rose was one of thousands thousands thou thou- sands ands of American prisoners of the Japs in the Philippines Ju Just t three months ago he be was in a group of captives being transferred trans trans- transferred from one island to another There were of us crowded int into a small ship he h-e says In telling the story When It a torpedo hit bit us many were caught below decks and never had a chance The J Japs ps turned machine guns on those who got into the water Those who escaped the torpedo and the machine gun gunfire fire started to s swim im for shore four our miles away Rose says 82 made it t but he and 29 others were ca caught by the Japs before the they Y reached reache shore The 30 were brought to another nother prison ship We were all roped together er all all' 30 of us standing in a aline aline aline I I line along e lite rail They started shooting us one by one Rose saw two men shot in the back and d dumped damped into the water He decided he might just as w well ll be shot trying to escape so BO he made a break for it He hid on the ship in the awhile listening to his his' fellow prisoners being shot one ne by one on one Finally he lie slipped d into the w water ter and again swam sw m t to shore shore making it safely ly this time He Hel joined the 82 survivors of the prison s ship ip disaster and later was rescued by U. U S S. naval forces Well VeIl th that's ts t's another noth r story to keep in your memory an and forthe for forthe forthe the United States to put into the records for future reference V Mie We ee wont won't forget it any any more than we will forget Pearl Pear Harbor or Dr the March of Death from froni Bataan orthe or the murders of of American American Amerl Amer Amer- l ican an fliers captured aft after r bombing raids on Japan or the dozens dozens of o other r her cases of J Japanese pan se barbarity until barbarity until the da day when fi finally ally we will wipe th the slate clean |