Keeping their morale up
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Keeping their morale up
Interviewer: So you must be thinking,
is it going to end?
Hope... hope. We'd, you know, hunger
was the big thing, was no question about it,
it was worse then the beatings.
I can't describe hunger and
I've never saw it described, what it really...
It's just something that you can't
describe it's just... especially after you
get your little bowl of rice,
boy are you hungry then.
Interviewer: So how could you possibly keep
the morale up? How did you keep going?
Well, we, most of us did something,
would say something to somebody,
everybody else that you know,
something positive and sense of humour.
Now we are starving to death and that,
this is the first camp we were in,
North Point, I felt that they were starving
us to take our energy away from us.
Afraid of us, afraid of us escaping and
they were building wire fences and
all that stuff continually.
But, in our, in the camp, the British navy
had about 10 officers and they had
girlfriends or friends on the outside and
the Japs allowed them to come up to
the fence and hand them small parcels.
One day we were walking along and
I'm looking at the hut and I see
something and I walked up to it,
here's a banana peeling nailed to the
wall and underneath it a sign says
"stranger then fiction".
We hadn't seen anything to eat so it
was strange to see a banana peel.
Those are the kind of things that
we'd try to, you know, laugh at,
to keep us busy...
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