I saw this artical friday on a newspaper while at school and thought it was good story. Finally somthing positive from ww2 japan. WASHINGTON — Sixty-nine years ago Saturday, American and Filipino prisoners of war on the Bataan Peninsula started marching at gunpoint. By the time the survivors arrived at a Philippine prison camp that spring in 1942, they had watched thousands of their comrades die along the 60 or more miles. What they suffered endures as a symbol of wartime cruelty. A few months ago, the grandson of one survivor traveled to Japan with an old photograph: a torn, grainy picture of a Japanese boy. For Tim Ruse, 28, and for the Japanese people who greeted him, the photo offered a way to pluck from a dark chapter of history one act of compassion. It was a photo of the child who helped save his grandfather's life Living | Grandson's search for Japanese boy who saved a WWII POW | Seattle Times Newspaper
