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    VJ Day

    Posted by RADSB on 15/8/2025, 7:28:58

    Poem by Stanley Durnford, POW on the Thailand railway

    VJ DAY KHANBURI

    "Gentlemen!" he said in tears, "the war is over",
    Looking towards a yellow hurricane light,
    Held up by someone in the struggling crowd,
    I glimpsed your face, its usual smile
    Checked in bewilderment at so much joy,
    So you must once have looked, when, as a boy,
    They gave us gifts at Christmas - now, this Freedom,
    Silent, the men sat on in darkness, bowed and still,
    As though at prayers, or sleeping after death.
    Then slowly, one by one, as a great crowd
    Of ransomed spirits might attend their Lord,
    Began impulsive movements towards the door.
    Stars filled the jagged hills, the village slept.
    The shuffling feet paused. Then someone sang,
    Timid at first, their voices, gathered in strength,
    Sounding a great hymn from the ragged lines,
    While, all night long, drums beat in the darkened shrines.

    August 16th 1945

    Mr J.C. Lomax having been called upon to give his opinion upon the proposed formation of a Town Club, said he was most emphatically in favour of a proposed Luton Town Football Club - 11th April 1885

      Re: VJ Day

      Posted by Madpig on 15/8/2025, 9:13:51, in reply to "VJ Day"

      Superb.

        Re: VJ Day

        Posted by RADSB on 15/8/2025, 9:25:44, in reply to "Re: VJ Day"

        The shock at the war's ending is understandable - after so long adhering to one minute at a time survival.

        The survivors guilt leaps out of the poem - they are surrounded by the graves and memories of their comrades.

        The anger no doubt came later. I've read about prisoners finding storerooms full of Red Cross parcels triggering the anger - some of the guards didn't fair well.

        Mr J.C. Lomax having been called upon to give his opinion upon the proposed formation of a Town Club, said he was most emphatically in favour of a proposed Luton Town Football Club - 11th April 1885

        Re: VJ Day

        Posted by MVhatter on 15/8/2025, 8:11:23, in reply to "VJ Day"

        A brutal and unrelenting campaign for those involved, brought to a close by an unimaginably destructive weapon.
        Like many others who had relatives over there, I'll have my grandad in my thoughts today, my mum always said he was never the same man on returning home.

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