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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at 2:04 AM
Miroo and YeJun went back to Korea ...They invited us to stay with them during the school hols...would they even remember us then?? I'll miss them so...We're currently learning bout WWII..I realised that General Yamashita died in 1946 and thought that he committed suicide after the fall of the Japs...I was wrong. I was kinda surprised after I did a search in Wiki. Yamashita had the officer who instigated the Alexander hospital massacre and some soldiers caught looting executed for these acts, and he personally apologised to the surviving patients. It's pretty obvious that he wasn't the cause of the war crimes in Singapore during the Jap occupation. This might be subjected to controversy though..Yamashita surrendered after the war.This time, however, Percival refused to shake Yamashita's hand, being angered by the exterminationist tactics that Yamashita had allegedly employed against Allied prisoners of war, so Yamashita burst into tears. Although Yamashita might have been expected to commit suicide prior to this surrender, he did not, however as he did not want someone else to take the blame. He got hanged in the end...its sad isn't it? He's repentant but didn't get the forgiveness that he longed for from Percival... I borrowed the The Bronte Project from the library recently...Am kinda embarressed and envious of the author's writing skills....Its profound and poetic...and funny.For example... Denis says that Americans( no offence ) are obsessed with penetrating a child ( vaccinations) He claims that a child is being sexualized and yet Americans cannot cope with this reality so they make it bout vaccinations. He claims that his countrymen( France) ( no offence, yet again...i'm only quoting from the book) do not hide behind needles. To which Sara Frost replies, " You copulate in the streets?" Denis sighs and says that this is why you ( Sara Frost, American)have child molesters. Sara Frost rolls eyes, " And France has no child molesters?" Denis says...we do, but they are from America.Haha! Get it? I expect not..but it's funny if you get it...I would rather have an older sis than two sucky younger bros |
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