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80 Years On: Sussex Survivors of Japanese Internment Camp Meet Again

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00:00You're the one up here, in the shade.

00:59I was only 12 years old, and I met, very sheltered in private life,

01:06and to suddenly be thrust into communal living with 2,800 other people,

01:14all living through the same severe restrictions, behind Beauvoir, no freedom,

01:21as Geshek has imperial Japanese and majesty, the emperor,

01:26created a terrible futurity in the mind of a young person.

01:32There were many laptops, and there were four computers.

01:36Three and a half years later, I was 16, going on 25, and kept growing up very quickly.

01:44Very quickly, indeed.

01:46We all had duties in camp, even the very young.

01:50In the past six months, while we still had the strength and had no marital pain,

01:59the floor seemed easy.

02:03But as hunger set in, no food, or perhaps sometimes bad food,

02:11our strength weighed, and the chores, when you're longer easing,

02:18they've been difficult, they still have to get down.

02:23We were not under supervision from the Japanese,

02:27from the Gulf, while performing our chores,

02:31and our camp-filled inmates made sure we did not strike off.

02:36In turn, not too soon, it left many very weakened,

02:43and rose a series of others.

02:46But throughout of all, we lived and believed we would one day be free again.

02:53We didn't know how it would happen, but it would happen.

02:57After all, we were British, and I met every few.

03:04There were a few Americans, that we learned back to journeys,

03:08but the British were in the majority, and the Brits led the way.

03:13We never lost our pride at being British.

03:16No matter what in the villages, we were begged to suffer.

03:21And the coven.

03:22But, we carried on, and in the end, we were begged.

03:32And the day for you, easy is good.

03:38We've heard many stories to say,

03:41but we were usually when dropping the bottles on the Oshimaden,

03:46that was up.

03:47But the Japanese were fought to be hemmed.

03:51They were prepared to die.

03:54They've been left.

03:55We lived and loved our life.

03:58So we carried on, and we came back to camp,

04:01and we were free.

04:03And it was the sweetest freedom you could ever imagine.

04:06Because me too, and the Glaplanes, has already sent out orders.

04:12It was too expensive to keep us all alive in camps.

04:18And the order had gone out.

04:21We had to prove our bad rewilders, sorry.

04:26But we were all going to be annihilated.

04:28We didn't know how, but it was going to happen.

04:34But it didn't happen.

04:37And they've been raised by night, so still.

04:41We were all three, and we are very grateful we get today.

04:47Thank you, Lord.

04:48I will be fortunate to be able to talk to all of you here today.

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