In matthew a rozell's book, the things our fathers saw were he interviews veterans throughout the book. Rozel also quotes another marine from that day named john murray, who says that the first thing he saw after he landed was a japanese machine gunner chained to his machine gun. But something apparently happened to tom lee after going into pelleloo. Jones writes, the pictures painted out of his pelleloo rience show a new approach. There is the tension of terror in the bodies here, and the distorted facial expressions of the men under fire show it too.