Lest We Gorget: Vj Day 75 Commemoration

Gordon Highlanders, sent to Changi prison, Were told they were going to Thailand for a holiday There they were set to work on the Death Railway Slaving, starved in the jungle, over the River Kwai Their meals were rice, three times a day, Their meat was dog and snail Rats were bred in camps for men to eat. 261 miles, throughHellfire Pass The smallest wound on the skin would ulcerate Death came by torture, malnutrition, malaria, Dysentery, pneumonia, cholera Survivors tottered to peace as ghostly skeletons ……………………………………………… 90% of the people died in Hiroshima, Radioactive rain poured down From the mushroom cloud In the years that followed, Survivors would face leukemia, cancer, Terrible side effects fromradiation. It takes ten secondsfor a nuclear bomb to blossom Its cruel seeds last decades, spangenerations Deadly umbrella, skinning people alive