As a result, his family in Iowa received a message that he was missing and presumed dead. After a few weeks recuperating, he joined a labor crew picking up scrap metal for the Japanese war effort. A year later he was shipped to Clark Field north of Manila, for 12 more months of manual labor. In August Jorgenson was among more than 1, prisoners jammed into the hold of the cargo ship Noto Maru. It was oppressively hot and too crowded to sit.
The men got a cup of water and a little watery rice to eat each day. The bathroom was a large, open vat in the middle of the hold. Once in Japan, the prisoners were hosed off, fed and put on a train. Jorgenson and about others got off at the Hanawa camp, in the mountains of northern Japan. There they toiled for the next year in an ancient copper mine run by Mitsubishi. They trudged 2 miles each day to and from the mine from their threadbare camp, through impossibly deep snows in the winter.
Though many of his fellow prisoners remember suffering, Jorgenson focuses on the moments his enemies showed humanity. And he cries when he tells of a Japanese officer at Corregidor who had been educated in an American mission school and studied the Bible.
He gave each of the prisoners a pack of cigarettes and told them he hoped they got home safely at the end of the war. In August they heard rumors of a giant bomb that exploded in Japanese cities. Soon they received news that the war had ended, and their guards disappeared. The former POWs received air drops of food and medicine that lasted until their liberation the following month. Jorgenson took a troop ship home to the United States.
Believing him dead, Ruth had moved to California and found a husband. So Jorgenson, too, moved on. He married a woman named Louise Messick, studied radio journalism at Drake University, and began a series of jobs in the music industry. His marriage ended in divorce in Louise and their three sons moved to California.
Jorgenson remarried and started a second family in Omaha. His second wife, Betty, died in He and his first love, Ruth, never forgot each other. Widowed and living in Pebble Beach, California, Ruth learned in that Warren actually had survived the war. She wrote him a letter. They spent 18 years together, he said, until Ruth died after a fall in their California home. He moved back to Nebraska to be near his son Loren, stepdaughter Kathy and stepson Virgil. He considered it a risk that comes with making a commitment to military service.
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I did daily paperwork, taught classes to mentally ill, and served daily meals. Also, I supervised many difficult clients. I spent nearly ten years there. Pros Much practical experience with the mentally ill. Cons The pay was only ok. Was this review helpful? Yes No. Report Share. Bad place. Turn over is bad. Ppl lie n a lot of swingers there. Not a goid place they didnt help the ppl who needed it n some came on drugs.
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