Childhood Memories of World War 2

[@olimthomas6515]

its good that you got to record these memories and share them. very interesting stuff and saddening stuff.

[@Phrenotopia]

Hi! Nice to see you here, Oli! Thank you for the kind words!

[@joshou3759]

I had two family members fight in the war and survive, a few more who didn’t. My father had two uncles, who died before he was born in prison. They were captured because one of them was a lawyer and the other was a doctor. My mothers grandfather survived the death march, but he escaped from Camp O’Donnell and joined up with the resistance fighters for the rest of the war until MacArthur arrived. And my paternal grandfather ran away from Manila when the city was declared an open city and cruel Japanese pilots still bombed the city to hell even when they could’ve just walked in and took it. Manila became the second most devastated city in ww2 next only to Warsaw. He ran to the mountains and joined up with the guerrillas to fight. And my best friend who’s provincial home is in Bataan where the Filipino American Army made their final stand. His grandmother hid in the mountains and fed supplies to the fighters. Stories of the most devastating war in the world must be preserved and these were the stories from my family and my friends family on the other side of the world in the Philippines, the place which withstood the Japanese storm the longest other than China.

[@hiddenhist]

Damn... this video seriously got to me. Great respects to your grandpa for having the courage to speak about this...

[@FromNothing]

Very interesting to have a first hand account of this from someone who grew up during that time.

[@NLen02]

Mijn oma vertelt me ook vaak deze verhalen, maar ze herinnert zich alleen leuke dingen (zoals bevrijdingsdag)

[@BensLab]

This sort of thing is so important to record. I have only a handful of photos of my father, and very little else to remember him by. This was a good video Fedor. It made me think of my dad.

[@Phrenotopia]

I am glad to hear that, Ben! I'm sorry to hear about your own father. I've just been visiting mine and his mind seems all but gone now. :-(

[@BensLab]

It's a horrible thing to both witness and experience, isnt' it? To see someone who's been a rock to you your entire life reduced bit by bit.

[@Phrenotopia]

Yes, it is. :-(