A very dear old family friend now gone told stories of his time as a Japanese POW. We were 12 yrs old or close to it when he shared his survivorship. To him and so many others Christ was their salvation. They held church services, song, and scripture via morse code, which held their minds and hearts together. Through time many of POWs faltered to the stain of torture, hard labor, little food and water, and unsanitary conditions with most of them not ever returning home. He shared his torture experiences with us youth in vivid detail even how he was made to not ever father children. I can still hear him sing in church louder than any other soul in the congregation and he did so because he needed to show his praise to God and be heard. Arduous as his trials may have been he never spoke lowly of the japanese soldiers who committed the inhuman acts but of the situation and how he and his fellow soldiers maintained their self integrity through faith and morse code fellowship which was as he explained the most formidable weapon against the Japanese empire.