re: Is there anything more painful than being skinned alive?

Drowning while being able to see the top of rhe water is up there for me. Big suffocation phobia

One grandad was a marine and the other was army spotter pilot in the pacific during WWII. It’s crazy when I think about it but the pilot held no grudge against the Japanese owned a Toyota etc. but the marine not a chance he was buying anything other than American. I guess the difference between being on a base or being in the field altered their view of the enemy. I did inherit a copy of a picture my marine grandad took of a beheaded Japanese soldier. Jap snipers would hide out in hollowed out trees etc and my grandad and his guys would give the island natives clothes, cigarettes, and beer to go sniff out the japs and kill them. I have a pic of one of the natives holding the japanese guys head like a trophy. I’d post it but I’m pretty sure I’d get the banhammer even though it has historical significance.