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"After flerte figfiting， my heavy ma6Wne gunner was g;9t"ngtoohot where he was a士. He c，led bapk and said the ;3un was gone and so ，re the rest of our guys," Miyamura said.
Miyamura said he later learned that a withdrawal had been ordered, but at the Ume he was not aware ofけ.
"At that time, I reselly got mad and told the others to go，" he said. "There was about seven or eight fellas
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The journey lasted for mo re tharla mo nth zancI covered ah estimated 500 m、if的，Miyamura s a They、 marchedミt 吗ht because the Chinsse fear^ed American air raids,
Foodgiveh the prisoners during the march was Inadequate, and they were constantly hungry, Miyamura said.
One njght the men passed a bloated mule,
"We ateけforきupper that night.はwas a tasty meal，,， Miyamura said.
Eventually most oft he prisoners got dysentry from drinking stream wateにThe Chinese then forced them to boil theけwater to prevent further problems, he said.
"I was getting weaker and weaker because of the food. You've heard of those mirages. I saw food in front of me and I kept reaching out for "，，' Miyamura said.
At the point he thought he would not be able to continue, Miyamura said, he drew upon his Japanese ancestry foraid.
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th$ fけSt year In camp, MIya-戶ra said.はcons!st6)d of small portions of m illさt anか /^orghum powder of a Ujmip 0トcabba。e ands6ybeanmjlに 丁 The food Wasカxtremely hard to digest and mahy of the prisonerssJ帥ly quit eating,MtyamuraSald
When he was captured, Miyamura weighed155 pounds. When he was released, he weighed110 pounds, he said.
"If 1りadn't k印t eating, I wouldnYhave weighed that much," he said. "I saw some boys tumedinto skeletons. The first year we were there, I saw an average of five to seven prisoners a day being buried.
"This vyぉn't all our troops, some were linけed Nations forces."
The food and living conditions improved after talks began about exchanging prisoners, he said.
Miyamura said he was not aware of any physical torture, but that he considered some treatment by the Chinese to be mental torture.
Hardest to take, however, was the constant rumor tl^at prisoners soon would be freed. Peace talks kept up for "/2 years before Miyamura was【eleased Aug. 21， 1953， to Freedom V HI age, a makeshift camp just south of the 38th parallel.
"When I crossed that line into Freed V HI age there was no jumping or hollering becauseけwas so hard to believe ，t finally had come true," he said.
M!yamura said he showered, put on pajamas and laid down orva cot for only several minutes when he was inform* ed that a reporter wanted to see h|m, 一
A front-page story in the Aug. 24,1953 edけion of 77?e y。情T7きs giv6S an account of what happened:
"…(Miyamurめthen was led into the press arena area. The Brig. Ge. Ralph Osborne, in charge of Freedom V川age， took him before the batぉry of microphones and TV cam-eras and announced: '• want to take this occasion to we卜 CO me the great V丄P.，ゅe most distinguほhed guest to pass through thl$ center.
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"Dearest Terry," the telegram read, ,ever so happy to be an American as today. Your prayers for me have been answered. Am feeling OK, getting wonderful care. Don't worry about me. On my way home by boat-Longing to see you again. Best wishes to aH at home. Hersh,"
When the boat docked in San Francisco, Miyamura was the "rst one off.
"I sayV my wife and sisters there. My dad also was there. Oト，I was so h柳y,'， he said.
When Miyamura returned to Gallup by train on Sept 9，the town turned out to weにome him. Mayor D. F. Molけca pro claimedはHershey MiyarmjraDay.
"As we were pulling into the station, I could see all the crowds, the band playing. Amelio DiGregoTio， we had been friends from childhood, he was one of the first persons I saw," Miyamur'a remembered of the tearful reunion.
He rode through town in a convertible and the parade ended in什ont of his father's house.
In October, Miyamura, his family and severalclose friends, including fellow POW Dan McKinney from Clovis, were flown to Washington, D.C.， where Miyamura officially received his award from President Dwight Eisenhower.
Now, memorab川a lines the wallきin Miyamura's family room.
"You had to be really lucky because so many heroic de6ds are done throughout many wars and so many go unnoticed," Miyamura sま. "To receive a medalけke this and to live to tell aboutは "J don'ttWnk anybody goes 011i to be a hefo or win a meda，， You just do what you're trained to do,"
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