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It's just not the Canadian way: a Princess Pat's soldier faces a court martial for dishonouring a dead Afghan.(Arron Perry)
Report Newsmagazine, The, May, 2002 by Ko, Marnie
> When the Second World War began in the Pacific, Natalie Nickerson, then 20, of Phoenix, Arizona, said a tearful goodbye to her boyfriend, a U.S. Navy Lieutenant. He promised to write. Two years into the war, Miss Nickerson received a Japanese skull, autographed by her lieutenant and 13 of his comrades, with a note that read, "This is a good Jap--a dead one picked up on the New Guinea beach." Taking it in stride, Miss Nickerson dubbed the skull Tojo, and on May 22, 1943, the photo of the young woman with the autographed skull became Life magazine's "photo of the ...
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