The Japanese worked over 100,000 men to death to build it in World War Two. Just walking over the famous River Kwai bridge part , I was very quickly tired and thirsty. It was unbearably hot and humid in May exactly 70 years since they POW's built it. Many of those taken prisoner, uncluding my uncle, had only just arrived in Singapore. At the end of the war when they were freed most were just skin and bone. They were brought back home on ships which took long slow routes so that the prisoners might be made more human by the time their families saw them again. Many, like my Uncle Albert, didn't like to talk much about what happened to them and what they saw during that dreadful time, the darkest phase of World War 2, when the Germans and the Japanese occupied a vast area of the globe.
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