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The Daily Egyptian

Serving the Southern Illinois University community since 1916.

The Daily Egyptian

Serving the Southern Illinois University community since 1916.

The Daily Egyptian

Director Jan Thompson: “Occasionally the prisoner-or-war was permitted to write home, but only on the official Japanese Imperial Army ‘stationary’. The men had to write their messages on small 3X5 cards and were limited to what they could write and how many words. This is one of the cards that my Dad, Robert Thompson, had sent to his parents.”