Posted
5:34 PM
by Gene
"His achievement in life was really sustaining himself through the ordeal in prison camp, and he considered himself a very fierce resister," Jim Pitchford said, recalling a story another prisoner told him about his brother.
"One day (in the prison), when it was his time to offer the blessing at a group meal, he said, 'Lord, we thank you for this dog s--- we're about to consume and we ask that you come down and smite these heathen bastards."To be sure some of those heathens now run Vietnam, but with any justice the Lord will do better than merely smiting them.
RIP, Jack Pitchford.(Originally posted at 5:19 p. m.; moved twice to save pride of place)