Mine aso had a friend and colleague killed in sight of him, we never realised that he was fluent in Japanese until his eulogy was read out at his funeral.
Astonishing man, total pacifist.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Thu 1 May 2014, 18:47,
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The only other thing I can remember him saying
was about how they would have scorpions against centipede fights, bet on them and all that. Entertainment.
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Northen Burma was shocking too...
Even Bastogne seems a bit jolly in comparison.
There's places on earth that seem to be "reservoirs" of pestilence... A bit like the message "don't go to Europa" in 2001. Why don't we get it?
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my nans brother was a japanese pow and no one in the family would talk about what he had been through
after being released and given some medical atention to get him home, the first thing his family did nearly killed him, they made him a huge dinner despite the doctors telling them not to.
he was captured when singapore fell and died when he was in his sixty's he never regained any sort of good health and suffer terrible terrible nightmares for years , despised and hated the japanese but not for what they had done to him but for what they had done to his friends and pals.
apols for glum time memmorys
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fluffybunnykiller Is feasting on the clitoris of life, Thu 1 May 2014, 19:39,
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