Grew up with many family, friends, neighbours etc who spent time fighting the Japanese, or in their captivity after Singapore fell. Plenty of extraordinary relics and souvenirs are held by individuals and museums; plenty of extraordinary stories told; or never a word breathed about them again. A couple of my own deployments - to East Timor and the Solomon Islands - were on former battelfields, and tangible and intangible reminders persist to this day. Very few of that most revered generation left now.
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them.
