Labels:text | letter | handwriting | book | office supplies | document OCR: 8 Dec 41 (Cameron Highlands, Malaya) must fight to keep our Peace. Quink Today marked the beginning of the' Malayan War' .... I had met Dad. feeling 14 Dec 41 ( Sungei Luas, Kampar. strong and wholesome in spirit after my Lower Perak, Malaya) Malaya morning excursion to be confronted by his We left Renglet this morning after leaving grim face as he announced the news that the hills, we saw several lorries of volunteers Singapore was bombed this morning by passing by. We recognised some of our the Japanese and that this meant we are friends from the mines. I wondered where now at war with Japan. .. Death! War! they were going - perhaps to K.L. Only then did I begin to realise what it [Kuala Lumpur] or maybe to Singapore. meant .. Before me, I imagined deaths and Nearing Kampar, I heard a most peculiar sufferings - all caught in the web of war. sound - an unearthly wail which seemed And what is war? - a fight for freedom to echo through the air, again and again. or power? A battle for one's right to That was the first time I heard what Dad peaceful living. War has reared its ugly called the 'Alert'. ... We had to stop and head here to shatter our peace and we take cover among the bushes along the 2
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