00:00He was a prisoner of war for quite a long time, and the things he saw were horrendous.
00:08He also saw the atomic clouds as well, and he had an understanding of the world and what was happening.
00:17And he had to learn, well you say he learnt Japanese for the medical, asking for medicines and things like that, to tell them what was wrong with people as well.
00:28And he also wasn't just looking after the prisoners of war, he was looking after their captors as well, because being a doctor.
00:37So he was on both sides in a strange way.
00:43And there was this nightmare over again.
00:49When he's on the ship.
00:53Coming home.
00:54They released him.
00:56And he says he's on a bed with springs, under a sheet, no lice, no fleas, no mosquitoes.
01:06And it's obviously like the first time he's had sleep in however long.
01:12Yeah.
01:13If you read the stones, you know, some of these people who died were 14 and 15.
01:20What were they even doing there?
01:21The VJ Day Letters to Loved Ones installation in central London was launched ahead of the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender to Allied forces on the 15th of August, 1945.
01:37By then, war in Europe had already ended, something we celebrate on VE Day on the 8th of May.
01:45But it wasn't until over two months later that the Second World War effectively ended.
01:52And while people in Britain and across the rest of the continent were celebrating, fighting in East Asia and around the Pacific continued with many British officers held in Japanese prisoner of war camps in unimaginably harsh conditions.
02:13I just think it needs to be marked quietly, really, and, you know, there's not a day goes by without, I don't think of my dad, really, in something, you know, and I wish I could go back and talk to him about some things, really.
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