Note: Johann Carl Friedrich Kasten IV: a Hawaiian born American of established German parentage, religious rebel and a confirmed atheist, distinguished soldier of the Second World War, protector of Jewish comrades-in-arms, victim of excessive Nazi torture as a traitor bearing a German name, but fighting for the enemy, twice an escapee – latterly from Berga, finally sent to Belsen just before its liberation by the Allied Forces, a War Hero of the USA, patron of the arts, and eventually a  much married, much travelled, wealthy businessman settled down in the Philippines for nearly sixty years. On 26^th July 2007, I left him and his family in the Makati Medical Hospital in the condition, as described in the above poem. He passed away at home in the Pacific Plaza, Makati, on the 9^th August 2007; his ninety-first birthday fell, along with his wife’s, Florinda, on 18^th August 2007.