Bayoneting a woman, doesn't exactly feel good. I remember wondering at the time, why we had to go this far. I remember that. But if you didn't do it, they called you a coward, a chicken.
And once you were a coward, if you got that reputation, you'd never get promoted. "Whenever I engage in combat, your lovingly made amulet "is at my breast, a source of endless joy".
I completely lost my humanity, I lost my human conscience. I was just like a brutish fiend. The more I killed, the more I began to enjoy it.
In the winter, the soldiers would start a roaring bonfire, and warm themselves at it, bring a baby, and throw it into the fire, and we'd all just laugh.
That's the sort of state the majority of Japanese soldiers were in...
I believe so...
