Such extraordinary stories. And your Dad was one of them? No wonder you choke up. We can't imagine what it was like to be so hungry. My great uncle was a POW in WW2. He was only a kid, barely 16. He only survived as someone took him under his wing and fed him potato peels. When he migrated to Australia he felt the luckiest man alive. Used to hoard cans and cans in his attic, swearing he would never to hungry again..You know the weirdest thing? When he got Alzheimer's he never stopped trying to get food. They had to put a lock on the fridge and a rope across the kitchen.. he had no memory of how to climb over a rope but that memory of starvation was so strong it persisted til he died.

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