“The Forgotten Highlander”
Even now, there are new stories about the experience of those affected by the Second World War. This account of suffering by a British prisoner of war with the Japan is horrendous.
As Alistair Urquhart rightly states: “Germany has atoned. Young Germans know of their nation’s dreadful crimes. But young Japanese are taught nothing of their nation’s guilt.”
February 26th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
I guess not all people believe or know about what the Japanese did 70 years ago to its neighbours?
(I remember that Roger has blogged about Nan Jing Massacres about a month ago…similar hint?)
We can see some spots over the jaguar’s body from here.
February 28th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
I was 11 and am now 72 and I have never forgotten Mr Houghton, he had been a prisoner of the Japanese.
We had a garden for the first time and he came into one day and we had bamboo canes lying around. A grown man was reduced to a shivering, crying hysterical person. My Mother and Father comforted him and we never ever used bamboo canes in the garden from that day on.