I usually see patients at the OPD on weekdays until 12 o'clock. When the tide of the patients stops, I sometimes enjoy chatting with them about everything under the sun. A patient, who had been dispatched to southern China during the Great East Asian War, visited me today with some valuable things, some of which are shown in the picture. They were bullets for the type 38 rifle. The moment I saw them, I was surprised and shouted, "Is it all right for you to keep them privately? Isn't it illegal?" He disassembled a bullet with a smile on his face and explained how it worked and showed me that it had no powder at the same time. I'm not accustomed to seeing guns or bullets, and so I got a little upset.
In the battlefields, he was engaged in the maintenance of the railways and the transportation of the military equipment and supplies. His story was really interesting and suggestive of the misery of the war.
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