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West. >> i must say, this is a long way from a german prisoner of camp, lloyd. >> it's a long way. a long ways. >> lloyd met and married ruth after his first wife died a few years ago. ruth has encouraged lloyd to write his history and to talk about it. she has decorated their home with his mementos. lloyd grew up in a struggling farm town, finished high school during the great depression, and with no real job prospects, enlisted in the army air corps where his life changed fast. >> one year from the day that i stepped foot and flew my first airplane, i have flying four inch bombers. >> that's...

>> lloyd met and married ruth after his first wife died a few years ago. ruth encouraged him to write and talk about his history. she decorated their home with his mementos. he grew up in a struggling farm town and finished high school in the great depression and no real job prospects, enlisted in the army air corps where his life changed fast. >> year from where i stepped food, i was flying four inch bombers. the need was there. it had to be done. >> he became part of the eighth air force flying for england deep into germany. it was one of the riskiest jobs in the war. loyal kilmer volunteere...

Effects prison camp could have many years later. >> you have to buy two. >> ruth understand lloyd's need never to be hungry or cold or in crowded rooms or awakened suddenly from a nap. she understood there were times he didn't want to talk. she understood that better than perhaps than hiss did when they were growing up. >> he did not communicate very much with us. that's something that the research has shown is that ex-pows have a lot of trouble communicating one on one and doing close bonding relationships. he was always kind of a distant figure. he wouldn't just throw his arm around you and ...

Disease ridden and brutal. >> they gave us stuff they called soup and we had black bread and we had this what we could gather from red cross parcels. i weighed less than 100 pounds when i was liberated from prison camp. >> what did you come to hate that huh to eat in prison that you can't eat anymore? >> we don't have cabbage served at our house or turnips. foods of that sort. >> here's grape nuts. is that what you like now? >> yes, i'd like that. >> ruth kilmer met lloyd when he was in his 70s, but her late husband was also a prisoner of war. ruth was familiar with the