# Veteran’s Day **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [November 11, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/veteran-s-day/197992 "2024-11-11T22:51:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/veteran-s-day/197992/1 "2024-11-11T22:51:37Z")
Thanks for your service. We are better off for it. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2024, 10:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/veteran-s-day/197992/2 "2024-11-11T22:55:48Z")
Yes, thank you all. I owe Veterans my life-my parents were rescued from a Japanese prison camp outside Manila in WWII. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 7:35pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/veteran-s-day/197992/3 "2024-11-12T19:35:02Z")
> [@texases](#): > > my parents were rescued from a Japanese prison camp outside Manila in WWII. Was that the prison camp that the Japanese established on the campus of The University of Santo Tomas? ---
**Author:** ![cigroller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c68b51/32.png) [@cigroller](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cigroller)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 7:55pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/veteran-s-day/197992/4 "2024-11-12T19:55:25Z")
More of a Memorial Day thing, but my Uncle was killed in Viet Nam on my mother’s 20th birthday. (He was Corps of Engineers on roads and bridges and caught a land mine). I was only about 11 mos old, so my experience of it is limited to that fact that growing up I was confused about my mom on her birthday. Why would she spend much of the day at church crying on her birthday? Took me a while to catch on. I wish I knew him. The other 3 brothers are awesome. His older brother also went, but managed to come back home (with all of the guilt that comes with that). He was a mechanic on base doing choppers and trucks and such. So unlike his little brother, he was usually behind the lines instead of on (or even ahead of) them. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 7:59pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/veteran-s-day/197992/5 "2024-11-12T19:59:29Z")
> [@VDCdriver](#): > > Was that the prison camp that the Japanese established on the campus of The University of Santo Tomas? Yes, exactly that. ---
**Author:** ![VDCdriver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/vdcdriver/32/30_2.png) [@VDCdriver](https://community.cartalk.com/u/VDCdriver)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 10:09pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/veteran-s-day/197992/6 "2024-11-12T22:09:28Z")
My best friend is a UST alumnus, and he has told me about the atrocities committed there and elsewhere in PH. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2024, 10:20pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/veteran-s-day/197992/7 "2024-11-12T22:20:46Z")
Wow, small world. “Fortunately”, they were civilians, he was a mechanical engineer for P&G, they were not treated as badly as the military prisoners.