We want the truth, the facts, about what happened on the Hell Ships to be known. We believe all of the Prisoners Of War who were aboard the Oryoku Maru and other Hell Ships are truly heroes. Eighty-three percent of those brave men who were herded into the holds of the Oryoku Maru on December 13, 1944 died before liberation in August of 1945.

They did not die in vain.

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