Word: kwashiorkor
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines, as was Mrs. Crouter, but after reading the article about her I wonder if we were in different wars, held by different captors. As a three-year-old, I suffered from kwashiorkor, a severe protein deficiency; this was not helped by eating the weevils in the rice, which we left in for their protein value. I remember three young men who were shot for trying to escape. We were forced to watch them dig their own graves, and then watch the execution itself...