On: Tortured by the Japanese in WW2, a former POW met his tormentor 50 years later

[arethuza]

I remember being slightly puzzled by a line in Cryptonomicon where the Colt 45 was described as being created to stop some particularly tough Philippine rebels - I remember wondering who they were rebelling against...

I found out recently (yesterday) that the US occupation of the Philippines in the Philippine–American War was particularly brutal - here is a clipping from the NY Time describing the "water cure":

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9F07E...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine%E2%80%93American_War