[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 88 (Thursday, May 25, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H5591]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               EXCERPT FROM ``PRISONERS OF THE JAPANESE''

  (Mr. DORNAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I have been slowly going through an 
incredible book by a fine Australian author named Gavan Daws. The title 
of the book is ``Prisoners of the Japanese.'' I have to return it this 
week to the Library of Congress, so I secured a copy from William 
Morrow Publishing in New York.
  I would like to read a paragraph from the young publicist Justin 
Loeber and why I want to do an hour on this book and the broader theme 
of the unbelievably savage and brutal sadistic medieval torture of our 
POW's by Japan under its warlords.
  Young Justin Loeber writes to me: ``On a wider scale, this book, 
`Prisoners of the Japanese,' is a story of compassion for the elderly. 
After reading Mr. Gavan Daws' book, I now have more patience for that 
old person who is standing in line at the post office--the person that 
has a limp or bad eyesight and moves a little slower than the rest of 
us. This person could have been tortured by the Japanese. Also, this 
book has taught me to commemorate Memorial Day as it should be, not at 
the mall celebrating the greatest sale of the year, but honoring those 
people who fought for our country. I''--this is Mr. Loeber--``will be 
going with Gavan Daws to the 50th reunion of the survivors of Bataan 
and Corregidor in Braintree, MA, over this Memorial Day weekend.''
  Mr. Speaker, I will do an hour on this later.

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