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Archive Home > 2008 > March > 06 > ‘There are certain things you don’t forget’

‘There are certain things you don’t forget’

Sunriver man who was interned in China during WWII to speak tonight

By Christopher Stollar / The Bulletin
March 6, 2008

SUNRIVER — Terry Thomas can’t eat sweet potatoes.

Every time he sees them, the Sunriver resident remembers his life as a child in a Japanese work camp during World War II, where he lived on a diet of rotting sweet potatoes, horse meat and broth.

“There are certain....

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