Michael Cash wrote:

> "Stood up against a wall" is a euphemism for being executed by firing
> squad.

Then I must be remembering the story of another POW. Perhaps one of Unit 731.

> If it were the big deal that the newspaper account seems to hype it up
> to have been, wouldn't it seem likely that at least ONE other paper in
> Japan would have been carrying it? Maybe there was another paper
> carrying it, but the only articles I've ever seen mentioned in
> connection with the story all come from a single newspaper.

Perhaps it was a scoop.

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