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Monday, June 19, 2017
12U All-Star Howe Bulldogs win preseason tourney
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James Gee - In his words
From The Blue Bonnet, Volume 73, that had been killed. But, anyway, Nagasaki was hit next, and we were Issue 2, August, 2015 called onto the parade ground, and After surviving the death railway, the Japanese in a formal ceremony told us what had happened and said U.S.S. Houston Marine survivor that America and Japan were now James Gee was eventually transported to a POW coal mining friends and that they wanted to treat us the very best they could and that camp near Nagasaki, Japan. they were sorry for all the hardships that we’d suffered and all that. And “We were about 45 miles from Nagasaki (by train). We probably in just fifteen minutes’ time, they felt the bomb and heard the darn switched from our major enemy to thing, but we didn’t know it our best friend, and to seal this, to because we heard a lot of let us know they meant it, they explosions that we didn’t know turned over their rifles and what in the world they were. But ammunition to us, which we we knew one thing: There weren’t accepted without hesitation. We had hardly any Japanese planes in the a man who made an American flag sky. We knew occasionally that and had carried it with him for quite American planes were in the area a while, and we took the Stars and The Howe 12U All-Star Howe Bulldogs went undefeated in the Pre- from the air raid sounds. We knew Stripes and replaced that rising sun All-Star tournament in Whitewright. They won the championship things were shaping up in our with Old Glory. That was the end of game, 6-0. In the photo are: (Top row, left to right) Jacob Campbell, favor… After Hiroshima, they our POW days…Of course, we Colby Hopper, Noah Riley, Ryan Hough, Cooper Jones, Luke called us on the parade ground, and were pretty stunned…That first day, Catching, (Bottom row, left to right) Coach Steve Hance, Garrett this is when we had our biggest run we took our rifles and we walked Gibbs, Lane Hance (team manager), Hunter Hance, Matt Hayes, down through the city. This is out across the countryside looking Coach Rodney Hough. Not pictured are Anthony Lowder, and Kent when people were jeering at us for food. ” Lowder. because of the number of people
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