200,000 Boys on a Rock Called Guam - Tapa dura

The war statistics and military strategy of World War II have been well documented. The purpose of these writings is to give the reader a "feel" for what it was like to be a teenager in a very slow moving world; then suddenly be jerked into a life style that you weren't at all prepared for. To see the different ways that people, cut from the same fabric, react in times of stress and change, can be devastating, or heart warming. It is at such times that we realize that we, in a way, are all strangers, and most don't know ourselves very well.