So Very Far From Home

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• Posted 08/31/09 by Ken
  I have had the honor to become friends with a lady who was in Yangchow C camp during this period. This film is an accurate portrayal as she related her time in the camp. I have written a story, with photos, of her captivity and will link this to the story. With permission I will post the web address if there is any interest. Ken
• Posted 06/01/09 by Zhengyu Bu
  Thank you for sharing the film and pictures with me. We have a peaceful life now. But we remember how much was given so we could enjoy every day.
• Posted 06/01/09 by Pamela Masters
  "So Very Far from Home” tells it like it was. It took me back to my turbulent teens, filling me with memories I’d long forgotten. For someone who lived through every minute of that macabre, twisted slice of history all I can say is, “Thanks for the goose-bumps…I lived them all over again!
• Posted 05/24/09 by Joe
  This is some more powerful stuff Think! We all think it can't be us. Study history and you'll know not only is this type stuff possible, but it'll probably be from those we bring upon ourselves
• Posted 05/24/09 by Dwight W Whipple
  I echo the comments re the Weihsien documentary and sent it to others in our family who also were interned there. We arrived in the camp on March 20, 1943 and were repatriated, all eleven of us in the Walton/Whipple families (CIM) in September of that year. My memories as a seven year old are still vivid. The documentary is such a treasure. We are trying to find a way to preserve it. Thanks so much, Mary and those who made it possible and a reality.
• Posted 05/24/09 by JOHN TAYLOR
  Excellent film. It brought back many memories.
• Posted 05/24/09 by Terri Stewart
  Wow. Just spent the hour watching this movie and being able to grasp more of what my great-aunt (Ruth Kunkel) wrote about in her letters of the camp, including the guard nicknamed Gold-Tooth. Thank you for passing this info along and I have now passed it onto my family to view.
• Posted 05/24/09 by Mitch Krayton
  My wife Linda and I watched this incredible documentary and were speechless. The narration and editing were compelling. The quality of the video was superb. The heartfelt and honest emotions of joy, pain and reunion were clearly captured in the interviews. How wonderful that everyone's faces, voices and photos are now preserved in such a compelling manner.