That's one I couldn't read that's for sure, Alffe.
The death marches of Sandakan. My father wasn't sent to Sandakan as POW and instead went to the Burma railway. At least he made it home I guess. He wouldn't have if he'd been sent to Sandakan. [I wouldn't have been born. Weird thinking about it.]
She was right. There is no good answer. There's no answer at all.
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Originally Posted by Alffe
I just finished this book by Agnes Newton Keith and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a true story of being prisoners of war in a Japanese camp in Borneo. It's written in 1947 while she, her husband and their young son were held there and how they survived. Her words imho are timeless...."Why must all young men throughout this world make the choice, to either kill, or be killed?" And she knew there could be no good answer.
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