The State - News from Feb. 15, 1988
Several hundred former civilian prisoners of war gathered in San Mateo for the second annual “Memories Together” reunion, sharing painful memories of their internment. Most of the former prisoners were captured in the Philippines when the Japanese stormed through at the start of World War II. Others were captured in China or Japan. One prisoner, Betty Harper Richie of San Diego, blamed the death of her mother on the hardships of one POW compound, where guards broke her mother’s feet and her arm to try to obtain information on hidden dried food.
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