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The Hidden Legacy of World War II: A Daughter's Journey of Discovery

by Carol Schultz Vento

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Suppose you were offered a million dollars to spend ten years on a deserted, but beautiful, tropical island paradise? Plenty of fresh water and natural growing food and great fishing. Would you?Here are a few more details, before you decide. This is a secret, off-book, experiment. It involves forty healthy subjects - twenty men, twenty women, between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty-two. Once the forty subjects are on the island, they will have no way of getting off and no way of communicating with the outside world. The subjects arrive with only the clothes on their backs. Not even shoes.There's more ¿ The people running the experiment, own the island and its sovereignty. This means that the island is an independent nation, answering to no other country or authority. There are no rules or laws, except those made by the owners. They don't make any. The island government is, thus, "Anything goes."There you have it: Deserted island. No rules, no laws. No government. Anything goes. Forty people. Clothes on your back. Ten years. No way off. Completely isolated. Completely on your own. Whatever happens ¿ you deal with it. One million dollars.Are you in?Then let's see how it goes ¿Best of luck.… (more)
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Suppose you were offered a million dollars to spend ten years on a deserted, but beautiful, tropical island paradise? Plenty of fresh water and natural growing food and great fishing. Would you?Here are a few more details, before you decide. This is a secret, off-book, experiment. It involves forty healthy subjects - twenty men, twenty women, between the ages of twenty-eight and thirty-two. Once the forty subjects are on the island, they will have no way of getting off and no way of communicating with the outside world. The subjects arrive with only the clothes on their backs. Not even shoes.There's more ¿ The people running the experiment, own the island and its sovereignty. This means that the island is an independent nation, answering to no other country or authority. There are no rules or laws, except those made by the owners. They don't make any. The island government is, thus, "Anything goes."There you have it: Deserted island. No rules, no laws. No government. Anything goes. Forty people. Clothes on your back. Ten years. No way off. Completely isolated. Completely on your own. Whatever happens ¿ you deal with it. One million dollars.Are you in?Then let's see how it goes ¿Best of luck.

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