31 March 2000
      Ramsey Copper wrote:

      "My dad was a civilian engineer in the Philippines when the war broke out.   He spent 3 years in a Japanese prison camp.   I am trying to find out the things he went through.   He didn't talk about it much and passed away 25 years ago.

      If you knew him or knew about him please contact me
      by e-mail: kcopper@prodigy.net

      His name was Robert Gamble Copper
      and he was from Lyndhurst, Virginia."

      Thanks,
      Ramsey R. Copper