Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987 Page: 95
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is yours." That was about the gist of it.
Jones: What were your feelings toward the Japanese then,
that is, once you had come down off the ceiling, as
it were, after hearing this?
Pryor: Well, actually, we weren't up on any ceiling. I
thought for years that whenever they tell me the day
the war has ended and we are free again, I won't
come down to earth for six weeks or so, that I'll be
up in the clouds. But when they told us it was all
over, most of us just turned and went back to our
huts and crawled back up on our sleeping area there.
I slept on a mattress that I'd made out of that long
Johnson grass. They have a grass they grew over
there, and it's like the Johnson grass that grows
here. I had stuffed some rice bags with this long
grass and made a sleeping pad about that thick--
about four or five inches thick. I' d made one for
myself and one for three or four other Americans
there. We just crawled up there and took a little
bit more rest until the time for us to go back over
there and start cutting wood for the kitchen. I kept
on working until the day they moved us out of that
camp.
Jones: So although there was no enforcement of it, you just95
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Jones, Waller F. & Pryor, Charley L. Oral History Interview with C. L. Pryor, December 5, 1987, book, December 5, 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1584976/m1/97/?q=%221920-02%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.