Rob Chisholm
Uncle John WW2 Japan
WW2 south Japan, my uncle tells me a story I am aged 8 and now many years later I decide to paint the idea that sat in my head all these years.
Uncle John sitting in a fishing boat sending back info about Japans movements of boats, upon returning to the island he staying on he captured by the Japanese as they come across his radio in his hut.
Now marching 2,000 miles north into mainland Japan, he meets many people with many a story to tell me. There march is to take them to an area where they have to climb a 500 ft hill and then fill there bag with coal total weight of the bag is now 110 Lbs or 49 Kg. During the heat of the day they walk down the path with the coal and back up again.
At night in Japan the heat very humid and not a dry heat, my Uncle kept inside a little hut with 15 other men. The hut size is 10 ft 15 ft the heat inside is unbearable. One prisoner asked the guard outside can they one at a time lay on the tracks to get the benefits of the cold steel and reduce the heat from there bodies. The guard amazingly says yes.
The guard just a very young man, like many a person in the front lines are. My Uncle watches the man go outside in a full moon and he lays down on the tracks. The train approaches slowly and cuts the man into three parts.
Uncle John said the man made no efforts to move or cry out it was as if the idea of going to the tracks was a form of suicide to be relieved from the torture of life.
The guard rushed over and from the small hut Uncle John could see the guards trying to push the body back together.
The next morning the guard who allowed this to happen was presented in front of the Samurai who ripped off part of his jacket and said you are now to work and live like the enemy. The soldier who had been so kind now suffered to the hands of the people he was born to.
To me this story I was told at aged 8 tells me in humanity you can always be kind and help each other, but it is so easy to follow a darker route and do harm. Amazing how the world can follow a person or persons in power and not maybe agree with the actions they are about to do.
Where as if they only all decide not to fight in the first place and ignore the upper powers then maybe the stupid killings would just run out of steam and we have a monthly TV screen of Politicain's punching each other in the ring, make for a good fun Tv show. But sadly people are like sheep and follow each other, they like 9 to 5, comfort of monthly pay cheques. Pay there tax's and the moment someone suggests war they off like a clock work soldier.
Here hoping the world never has to ever go through this again.
Last thought remember the ww1 when they play foot ball in no mans land ?
If not have a look here Germans V Uk and all are friends next day soldiers thought why are we fighting ?
Captains said get back to shooting or we shoot you, at that point on both sides just think if they turned around and shot the Captains and said hi Head Quarters well f.... u - If you wish to fight come on down here we give you a gun over you go.
Yes people in power might have the ideas but they not the right ones at times they are the worst ideas.
Uncle John WW2 Japan
WW2 south Japan, my uncle tells me a story I am aged 8 and now many years later I decide to paint the idea that sat in my head all these years.
Uncle John sitting in a fishing boat sending back info about Japans movements of boats, upon returning to the island he staying on he captured by the Japanese as they come across his radio in his hut.
Now marching 2,000 miles north into mainland Japan, he meets many people with many a story to tell me. There march is to take them to an area where they have to climb a 500 ft hill and then fill there bag with coal total weight of the bag is now 110 Lbs or 49 Kg. During the heat of the day they walk down the path with the coal and back up again.
At night in Japan the heat very humid and not a dry heat, my Uncle kept inside a little hut with 15 other men. The hut size is 10 ft 15 ft the heat inside is unbearable. One prisoner asked the guard outside can they one at a time lay on the tracks to get the benefits of the cold steel and reduce the heat from there bodies. The guard amazingly says yes.
The guard just a very young man, like many a person in the front lines are. My Uncle watches the man go outside in a full moon and he lays down on the tracks. The train approaches slowly and cuts the man into three parts.
Uncle John said the man made no efforts to move or cry out it was as if the idea of going to the tracks was a form of suicide to be relieved from the torture of life.
The guard rushed over and from the small hut Uncle John could see the guards trying to push the body back together.
The next morning the guard who allowed this to happen was presented in front of the Samurai who ripped off part of his jacket and said you are now to work and live like the enemy. The soldier who had been so kind now suffered to the hands of the people he was born to.
To me this story I was told at aged 8 tells me in humanity you can always be kind and help each other, but it is so easy to follow a darker route and do harm. Amazing how the world can follow a person or persons in power and not maybe agree with the actions they are about to do.
Where as if they only all decide not to fight in the first place and ignore the upper powers then maybe the stupid killings would just run out of steam and we have a monthly TV screen of Politicain's punching each other in the ring, make for a good fun Tv show. But sadly people are like sheep and follow each other, they like 9 to 5, comfort of monthly pay cheques. Pay there tax's and the moment someone suggests war they off like a clock work soldier.
Here hoping the world never has to ever go through this again.
Last thought remember the ww1 when they play foot ball in no mans land ?
If not have a look here Germans V Uk and all are friends next day soldiers thought why are we fighting ?
Captains said get back to shooting or we shoot you, at that point on both sides just think if they turned around and shot the Captains and said hi Head Quarters well f.... u - If you wish to fight come on down here we give you a gun over you go.
Yes people in power might have the ideas but they not the right ones at times they are the worst ideas.