We stand bango long before day break…I am reminded that this is 1943, and as I recall, the year Mr. Churchill had decided upon as when Britain would make her offensive. The greens, the water lilies and pechay are still shoveled out of a truck on delivery to our galley. And they still stink and are cluttered and mixed with egg shells and other debris that plainly tell its source as being some slop chute or hotel garbage barrel. It makes no difference if we refer to it as “greens in the garbage” or “garbage in the greens” it is still garbage, but they are still greens—and we eat it.
Thomas H. Hayes
Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy; imprisoned in Bilibid Prison, Manila from July 2, 1942 until December 13, 1944; became chief surgeon in in October, 1943. Perished on the prison ship Oryoku Maru in 1945.
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