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Australian soldiers after being liberated from a Japanese concentration camp in 1945 (Changi POW camp). They were fortunate to have lived.
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Australian soldiers after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, 1945Australian soldiers after their release from Japanese captivity in Singapore, 1945
Libby Johnson
My dad also 6 1/2 stone on release - my mum rocked him at night through his nightmares - such love
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Maryl Lee Martinez
Libby Johnson Your mother's sounds like a very caring person
Betty Geach
Libby Johnson This is what I mean no one knows how they suffered the war was over and they were released but the war in their head went with them till the end.
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Maryl Lee Martinez
My mom and dad were married for 62yrs
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Rebecca King
Libby Johnson what a beautiful mum. Your poor dad. Can’t even begin to imagine
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Betty Torraville
Libby Johnson you had a special mom,god bless her patient spirit,I agree what Love she had for your dad.
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Teresa Horsley
Libby Johnson your dad deserved all the love and cuddles after so much ill treatment
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Cid Pettit
Libby Johnson You are truly blessed. Your parents light shine always.
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Demitra Nichols Bushnell
Libby Johnson That's so sad
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Libby Johnson
Also dad lived until his 95 year - married for over 60 years.
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Barbara Blasiak
Libby Johnson wow- I’ll say~
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Sujatha Samarajiwa
Libby Johnson what LOVE! You are BLESSED to have had such loving parents. True love, tks for sharing, blessed my day!
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Giuseppe Linda Lanza
Libby Johnson my Dad too.
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Phillip Zimmerman
Libby Johnson you just made a 60 year old man cry
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Leslie Butcher
Libby Johnson So happy for your family your father survived and your mother was the angel she was. Your family is an inspiration
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Libby Johnson devastating so sorry
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Kay Moore
Libby Johnson I did the tour through Changi museum, and the story behind each exhibit is narrated by an actual POW… I cried all the way around! I can’t imagine the inhumanity and cruelty your Dad endured, Libby.
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Brenda Gordon
Lynette Gibson I will never forget the horrific suffering captured in the news reels….heart breaking….
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Vince Papalia
Brenda Gordon nor sud u forget and more importantly nor sud we for give them for wot they done to our diggers.
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Loretta Stone
Libby Johnson how lovely,
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Sheree Weston
Libby Johnson would have been just awful xx
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Susan Feaviour
Libby Johnson. What wonderful parents you had - so much love
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Lynette Gibson
Libby Johnson your Dad was such a beautiful person who gave so much for his country.
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Susan Feaviour
Lynette Gibson . Lovely words - and yes you are so right
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Cathy Donald
This breaks my heart to know what they all went through History should be taught more in schools our true heroes
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Maryl Lee Martinez
I listened to my dad's nitemares at 4yrs old when I would crawl in bed with him and my mom she told me what they were about when I got older WW11 Veteran Lester A King RIP Dad Love and miss you
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Maryl Lee Martinez
Really
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Maryl Lee Martinez
Cathy Donald It should!!
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Valerie M Enright
Cathy Donald Some want to blank out history!
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Kathy Ryan
Cathy Donald I keep advocating that!!
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Pamela Timbers Willis
Cathy Donald Yes….this generation is brainwashed
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Karen Elizabeth
Cathy Donald history needs to show a lot of suffering throughout history not just slavery.
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Michael Robinson
Cathy Donald snd about the ruthless people in this world..
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Joan Temperton
My cousin (a young man) was a POW - incarcerated and died on the Changi Railway - we will never really know what he and many others suffered defending our Country. We should ALL be thankful for what we have in Australia and for what our servicemen did…
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Maureen Goddard
How happy are those young men. None of us living today have ever had to go through what they have. I hope they went on to live happy lives. And god bless the others that didn’t survive this terrible torture they went through xx
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Kathy Strapp
Very brave men! We need to be grateful for their sacrifice!
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Alexandra Ormerod
OMG what they went through - completely horrific. Total respect and thank-you to our servicemen and women that keep our countries safe places to live. Love and thanks to each and every one of them. So brave.
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Yvonne Bowtell
We don't fully realise what these very brave soldiers went through for us. It is distressing to see them looking so gaunt. It is hoped that they had a peaceful life on their return. A big thank you to all servicemen and women.
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Tommy English
This is still happening today to people through war will we ever learn to be at peace with each other unfortunately I can't see that as man has been fighting with each other through religion colour greed possession since day one and nobody has came up with the answer we will end up destroying the world ourselves
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Rod Glassup
We have visited Changi and the memorial gardens and graves and paid our respects to them all, God bless them all, and may they all Rest in Peace
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Susan Walker
Rod Glassup I’m so glad you did that.. thank you..
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Lillie Moffett Tavel
Rod Glassup Amen
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Elizabeth Mac
Rod Glassup we have also visited Changi , and Kranji war cemetery, it is so well looked after.If you ever get the chance ,if you haven’t already done so, when you are next in Singapore you should visit. They gave up everything for the freedoms we have today.
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Helen Austin
My father was one of the survivors.
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Nancy Gordon
So brave so admiral. The lucky few that survived!! Total respect snd admiration for what they endured and fought for
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Robyn Robyn
Do hope they lived a "good" life after this experience, although their bodies and (minds) were so abused. Bless every one. My admiration and appreciation always.
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Janet Van Der Sluis
I can't begin to imagine what they must have gone through. Rehabilitation mentally and physically must have been so very difficult... perhaps impossible.
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Peter Maher
Janet Van Der Sluis don't think there was much rehab of anything in "the day".
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I can believe it. It must have been absolutely horrendous.... So very sad.
Even with professional help, I don't see how anyone can really cope with the horrors of war. I wish the world would learn its lesson from years back... In a war, the…
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Tony Goode
God bless all those that fought for Great Britain and freedom during those times.
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Paul Tennent
Tony Goode Yeah, Mate. Britain did it real tough, constant bombing etc, and a gallant effort by your RAF.
We were kinda left alone, for a fair while. Never mind...we got by. Typical Aussies.
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Rob Adkin
Tony Goode just to mention that Canadian soldiers who landed in Hong Kong at the start of December, 1941 and had to surrender on December 25 after horrendous fighting also suffered the same terrible fate. Amazing that any of them survived the horrors of the POW camps.
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And yes. The
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Tony Goode godspeed
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Lori Person
We have nothing to complain about. We should all count our blessings. And salute the ones who fought for our freedom. They are the ones who were mistreat and still to this day are not glorified enough for what they had to endure.
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no - running around "saluting" a bunch of people you don't know for some imagined event is exactly what Anzac day and "lest we forget" are supposed to prevent.
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Maria Socorro Padida
Carl de Malmanche are you very sour and angry we are just showing appreciation for their service
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Rona Myers
Lori Person, so true.
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Lori Person Absolutely agree with your COMMENTS.
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Lori Person
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Lori Person I would willingly go down on my knees in honour of these brave men ,and give thanks for every day they gave me a live to live.
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Joan Jones
I hold great respect to all that fought for our freedom .
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Jamie Storey
Joan Jones what freedom?
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Tutt Bryant
Joan Jones They fought for the British Empire Joan. These men were let down badly by the British who believed blindly in their superiority. After WW2 all the colonies fought the British and the French for their freedom. So many Indians and Africans fought for us but returned home to slavery. Indigenous Australians the same. So many Indians captured in Singapore died as slave labourers but we never acknowlege them.
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Joan Jones
As was my 2 uncles that live with us on the farm ,not even a union jack on they coffin . RIP .
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Jasmina Milojevic Vuckovic
Joan Jones They would turn in their grave if they knew what has become of their beautiful Australia...
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Morgan Maguire
Joan Jones oh please look at Australia right now...what "freedoms" do they have
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Toni-Fae Robinson
Morgan Maguire Please migrate--I suggest go live in Afghanistan-- you may find it educational, & we will be glad to see you go.
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Johnny Jordan
Joan Jones yes we're grateful
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Judy Verlander
Went to the Changi prison chapel. Very emotional and also very sad
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Hilary Green
Fantastic historical photo. Hope theses chaps all lived to a good age
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Serena Brice
How they survived was just pure determination & luck
Bless all that didn’t
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Pat Frame
What these men went through most humbling my total respect to these tough men
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Patricia Robinson
What they must have endured,,Respect for them all.
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Helen Ovenall
So glad some survived
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William Gladwell
I've just finished reading the Railway Man incredibly compelling and beautifully written
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Jane Gritmacker
Bless them bless them 3x over
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Nancy Malkmus Bazzicalupo
Looks like a rescue in the nick of time.
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Mary-Libby Amoury
They suffered the rest of their lives emotionally and physically.
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Charlotte Warner-Foutch
Glad they made it but the nightmares they lived thru makes me very sad.
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Leah Nimu Myako
I look forward to the great day when we shall enjoy a new heaven and a new earth... All these sufferings we experience shall be finally wiped out......,
HOW N WHY SHOULD WE TREAT EACH OTHER THIS WAY...,,..…
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Helen Mandley
When I was a child, one of my elderly neighbours was a Japanese POW, he never spoke about it but he would in his nightmares. So so sad the effect it had on him, his wife never even knew what he went through it was so awful.
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Mandy Briscoe
This is why we should never mock POWs!
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Chelsea Pfeifer
Horrific things that we do to each other as humans. To watch physical and emotional suffering like this is beyond me
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Jackie Wilford
These were the lucky ones!..
Hopefully they all lived to enjoy good health and happiness for the rest if their lives.
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Climbing Frame
Lest we never forget the efforts all of our Commonwealth service men and woman made and of course their sacrifices.
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Teresa Little
Bless them.They all went through hell.
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Theresa Trim
Many thanks for their service. It is unimaginable what they and so many others suffered, so we may live in the world as we know it. Sadly, so many are not aware of the sacrifice so many gave, including many leaving idiotic comments on here, who should quite frankly, be ashamed of themselves.
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Richard Rolling
My grandfather was 6 foot tall and weighed 65lb when he came out of a place like that.
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Caron Tomlinson
My husbands uncle survived Changhi jail x
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Matthew Matyjek
Great audio episode from Dr. Mark Felton on the subject. https://youtu.be/kpVgDgKpQS8
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WW2 Japanese Military Brutality ExplainedWW2 Japanese Military Brutality Explained
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Gianna Greco
Why is there so much evil in the world
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Nino Sansano
Gianna Greco Greedy pigs at the trough,they want it all !
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Mary J Di Biase
Nino Sansano YEP
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Gianna Greco Because it's Full of PEOPLE.
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Because the devil
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Mary J Di Biase
Arrogance, envy, stupidity.. and the very dumb that put religion before anything...
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Gianna Greco till when BABYLONIANS fall
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Gianna Greco
Religions.
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Alexander Almeida it all started with Envy
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Khaled Emara
Each civilization is known by its treatment for prisoners, old people, weak people,
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Sherry Hokansson
I hope they all went on to have long, full, happy lives.
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Gail Dorling
Sherry Hokansson U cannot have full life after changi ..I can only go on !!
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Sherry Hokansson it's a forlorn hope ..
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Jill Grint
Sherry Hokansson I very much doubt it A lot of exPOWs suffered for the rest of their lives reliving the terrible treatment they had at the hands of the Japs
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Man inhumanity to man
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Mis Jeanh Penny
What they must've gone through, doesn't bear thinking about but it's good they survived. Bless them.
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Eddie Trammell
My Dad was Liberated out of a German prison after the War, probably looked terrible too, they were starved, a lot of them died in those prisons.
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Shirley Brian Phillips
May God bless you for your service in keeping us safe xxxxxx
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Felipe Gabriel
Japanese Empire was savage with war prisioners...
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Felipe Gabriel The Japanese country never paid enough for their brutality, senseless killings of civilians, brutal treatment of POW's or their savagery during WW2 and their build up invasion of China in the 1930's. They still owe those countries and …
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Terry Selzler You are on point. And it is important from a historic perspective for people to know
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Felipe Gabriel all countries have been savage in war
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Felipe Gabriel well chinese civilians ended much worse.... Japanese soldiers did many crimes during WW2 ....
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Amy Ann Ayash
A friend of mine from Malaysia had Chinese grandparents on one side of his family. His grandmother told him Japanese soldiers took a bunch of Chinese men (including his grandpa) and marched them into the nearby forest. She never saw him again. She said the atrocities done by the Japanese were unspeakable.
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As malnutrition they are look how happy they are to be free.
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Allison Slater
Adira E Reignheart probably gaining weight daily at the time this picture was taken.
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Allison Slater yes, indeed.
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Great book by James Clavell.
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Sergio Nick Merlo
The brutality of Imperial Japan during ww2 is not well known in the West.
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Sergio Nick Merlo my parents and grandparents generation disliked the Japanese because of their WW2 behaviour.
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Sergio Nick Merlo no , it is not well known at all. The Germans , I think , mostly abided by the Geneva Convention.
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Norma Ellis
Sergio Nick Merlo sadly not a lot different to the american atrocities now. Even some Australian atrocitiez.
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Norma Ellis I respectfully disagree with you .
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James D. Jarvis
Sergio Nick Merlo there have been movies made about it over the years.
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Sergio Nick Merlo less known in modern Japan
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Sergio Nick Merlo No wonder some body taught them some good manners,
These fellows were brutes,
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Sergio Nick Merlo everyone should read “unbroken”
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Sergio Nick Merlo no it is not...please keep our freedoms...they gave so much for us...and they were young...
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Philip Tory
Sergio Nick Merlo that would be right ?? Australia helped save you from the Germans in ww2 .??? The side you wanted to be on " Germany " ?????
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Philip Tory he’s just another peanut mate
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Sergio Nick Merlo
I live in a small village on the North West Coast of Scotland, I knew 5 men who were Prisoners of War in Burma.
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Sergio Nick Merlo British troops also suffered badly in the same camps. The suffering is very much understood here.
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Sergio Nick Merlo agree, they were every bit as brutal as the nazis.
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Sergio Nick Merlo Japanese too suffer from malnutrition during the two last year of war
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Sergio Nick Merlo i think it is pretty well documented
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Peter Carley
Rosalie Martin read further down, we have already agreed about that. I think the discussion was more about their actions being known in the west
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Sergio Nick Merlo you are so right about undocumented ....
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Peter Carley the knowledge was supressed on the instructions of the British government post VJ Day when the PoWs were told on their way back to their homelands that they should not speak about what had happened to them as VE Day had been the main post …
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Sergio Nick Merlo
Peter Carley , I can appreciate that, noble art for some... It's personal.
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Sergio Nick Merlo as I stated I have have in the past an interest in the culture and studied martial arts. Perhaps my interest was deeper than many
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Sergio Nick Merlo
Peter Carley , There's always an esoteric corner in these imperial regimes... Many loyalists end up taking their own lives in silence.
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Peter Carley
Sergio Nick Merlo no, not always but I never had any problem with reading matter when I was interested in their culture
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Sergio Nick Merlo
Peter Carley , I think not. You have to do some digging... The truth is always complicated. Not all aspects of torture and other atrocities are always "well" documented.
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Peter Carley
Shannon Stearns naturally events closer to home get more attention but if people don't have a wider knowledge it is because the interest is lacking
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Kamunyak Van Zanten
Peter Carley thank you for your Service Gov'ner!
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Peter Carley
Scott Ludtke no they don't , they are not proud of that history. They can be a cruel people and some of that stems from their cultural past
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Peter Carley
Kamunyak Van Zanten being british and that the British army was very much involved in combat around parts of asia and the jungles perhaps there is a greater awareness in Britain. I am 63 now and members of my family were part of that generation
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Peter Carley
Shannon Stearns i learned about it in school and if anyone cares to research the war there is plenty of documentation.
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Shannon Stearns
Peter Carley I think it gets overshadowed by the Nazi camps, might be well documented but I don’t think it’s as well known for most people
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Kamunyak Van Zanten
Peter Carley no. We always talk about the crap in Europe everyday
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