I am wrestling with a problem that has been on my mind for some days now, regarding my elderly grandfather. He is dying, although we are in all in acceptance of this fact as he has had a long, fascinating life.
One major part of his youth was WW2, when he served as RSM in the Royal Signals (Dispatch rider), with distinction in both N Africa and Burma (he had the privelege of meeting both Monty and Heile Salsee on a regular basis thanks to his work). I do know that he was captured and tortured severely be the Japanese near the end of the war and only got home in 47, unable to walk or urinate without aid for the rest of his life. Whatever he knew as a dispatch rider, he did not reveal to them even after 3 years of torture and imprisonment.
To this day he cannot forgive the Japanese people, even though his world has long since faded away- he does realise we are friends now. I realise he went through so much at their hands and that his mind suffered severely, unimaginably...
2007-02-15
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