Tojo

Biography

Timeline

1. date not given

   A frightening visit to the Royal American Shows

   His father took him into an atrocity exhibit containing graphic photographs and wax recreations, including a replica identified as Tojo. Tojo was represented, not present. Bernard also recalls seeing an exotic dancer outside a tent.

   Bernie's Chapter

Stories mentioning Tojo

• Victory Celebrations and Frightening Lessons About WarBernard places V-E Day in late summer 1945 and remembers pride mixed with incomplete understanding. His mother wanted to join a celebration parade, while his father wanted to remain home. He recalls his father's draft exemption for dependents and wartime work making machine gun parts and tank tracks at John Deere Plow Works. After V-J Day, overheard accounts of atrocities made Bernard decide never to go to war. A later Royal American Shows exhibit in Moline terrified him with photographs and wax figures; he also recalls an unexpected glimpse of an exotic dancer at the carnival.

Referenced in

• Bernie's Chapter — W. W. II