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Mr. Forsyth speaks to his attitude toward the Japanese people today, and how his experience effected him in later life.
Transcription
Interviewer: Mr. Forsyth, what's your attitude now towards the Japanese people?
Well, if I could forget, if I can only forget what had happened, but the trouble is I can't forget. Some of my best friends were, well, let's face it, some of them were actually murdered over there. And if I could only forget but you know, some of that, those things are just burned right into you consciousness.
Interviewer: When you think, Mr. Forsyth, back on your time in the Canadian Army, in the chaotic and confused battle of Hong Kong, and in the squalor and the cruel conditions that you endured in the prison camps, and in the work camps in, in Japan, when you think back on that, how would you say that that experience effected you in later life?
Well, I still marvel, I still marvel that we had the fortitude to, to live through those experiences. It's incredible that the human body can stand, well, starvation and, and overwork and so often we worked in rain and snow, we came back to the barrack, or to the huts, and we were soaked to the hide, and the first winter, there was no, there was no fires allowed. And we had no extra clothes to, to, to change into. And it, that, that, that is real misery, that is, that is misery. But I will forever marvel that, that human beings can stand that sort of thing.