About

Wash. Rinse. Reblog.

Search for content

December 4, 2011
Permalink »

"Life is worth living and no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes on the prize of the happiness that will come. Even when the Death Railway reduced us to little more than animals, humanity in the shape of our saintly medical officers triumphed over barbarism.

Remember, while it always seems darkest before the dawn, perseverance pays off and the good times will return."

~

Alistair Urquha, author of The Forgotten Highlander.

Urquha was taken as a POW when the the Japanese occupied Singapore, and spent 750 days in the jungles of the Pacific as slave labor on the Death Railway. While many of his comrades perished Urquha endured only to find himself on a hell ship, an ordeal he survived to the point of making it through the ship’s subsequent sinking by Allied torpedoing. He was left to float adrift for a week in the South China sea before being picked up by a Japanese whaling vessel which took him to mainland Japan. Until the end of the war Urquha worked as slave labor in a mine near the city of Nagasaki, and was working in said mine when he was hit by the blast of the atomic bomb dropped only ten miles away. He was liberated by the US Navy in late August 1945, a breathing but barley living skeleton.

(via demons)


(via demons)

Notes:

  1. chiasticbees reblogged this from demons
  2. euphoricelixir reblogged this from demons
  3. collettecollette reblogged this from demons and added:
    “Life is worth living...no matter what it throws at you it is important to keep your eyes...
  4. missydurden reblogged this from demons
  5. fuckyourheroes reblogged this from demons
  6. deathofaladiesman reblogged this from ehosk
  7. ehosk reblogged this from demons
  8. jerkido reblogged this from demons
  9. mermaidsinthebasement reblogged this from demons
  10. iridially reblogged this from demons
  11. jabr0n1 reblogged this from demons
  12. world-forgot reblogged this from demons
  13. sinsear reblogged this from demons
  14. demons posted this