Categories: journal
Date: 15 November 2011 06:41:42
Thinking of my mum's friend, who lost his life in a shot down bomber during the second world war. Also of my uncle, who was a conscientious objector, and was a medical orderly in Singapore, and spent the war in a prisoner of war camp. Ironically, as Laurens van der Post suggests in "the Night of the New Moon", his life may have been saved by the dropping of the atom bombs, as his captors may have been planning to kill their prisoners, as a last resort ...