abie abraham with japanese troup

A year after the Japanese surrendered, Abie was notified by a Filipino-Japanese native that the Japanese wanted to surrender to Americans, fearing the reprisal from the Filipinos .In the hills of Orani, Bataan, where Abie disinterred many bodies, he got in touch with the Japanese Major. Through an interpreter, he said he wanted to surrender his men. Abie told him to be at this post in the jungle and he would have American troops, who were stationed forty miles away, to give them protection from the Filipinos. The next day trucks (soldiers from the tank company arrived to take them to prison camp and back home. In a ceremony, Abie was honored to receive the Japanese Major's Saber....
Notice the Japanese soldiers still have their weapons. There are many decendants of these soldiers who would not exist, but for the kind and forgiving Sgt. Abie Abraham.