Jim is sent to St. Marie's Hospital and has been waiting for three days to be released. The hospital is guarded by the Japanese. The skies above Shanghai are filled with aircraft and Jim listens to the guard trying to name them. Jim thinks about his parents and hopes they will come visit him soon. He has a hard time believing the war has actually begun. He half expects his chauffeur to come to get him telling him it has all been part of a strange movie staged in Technicolor.
What he does realize is real is the six hours he and his father spent sitting on the mud flat next to the dead sailor. Here they waited for the Japanese to realize they had won and watched the rest of the.....
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