Ben Skardon says he never feels alone.
In good times, just as in the worst times of his life, he feels the presence of his best friends, Henry Leitner and Otis Morgan.
The three Clemson College graduates spent three years together in Japanese prisoner of war camps in the Philippines during World War II.
Only Skardon would survive the war, but he said this week that he doesn't credit that to any special qualities.
"I was the least active, the least helpful, the least healthy," Skardon says. "I was always incapacitated in some way."
