Washington, DC – American ex-POW in Japan to travel with Obama to Hiroshima

An American prisoner of war, who was held by Japan during World War II, has been invited to accompany President Barack Obama on his trip to Hiroshima this week. Daniel Crowley was in the U.S. Army Air Corps when his unit surrendered on the Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines in 1942, and was shipped to Japan in 1944 to work as a slave laborer in a copper mine until the end of the war. “It’s a living thing with me,” he was quoted as saying in a biography. “It’s not ancient history at all.” Obama confirmed in an interview that he would not apologize for the American atomic bombings on his visit to Hiroshima.