51.   Many parents did not discuss their wartime experiences in a culture that prescribes silence when recalling embarrassment or pain.

52.   Sakai, who has written extensively about his wartime experiences, insists he never believed in the kamikaze spirit of self-sacrifice that was drilled into Japanese pilots.

53.   For almost all the US warriors, the trip is a symbolic personal journey back to their often horrific wartime experiences.

54.   But for almost all the former warriors, the trip is a symbolic personal journey back to their often horrific wartime experiences.