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, was used for bayonet prcatice and my grandfather had to help try to hold his innards together as he died. Later my grandpa tried to escape and was blinded as punishment- he never saw again, and . .even now he can't bring himself to forgive the Japanese for killing all his friends, even though he accepts he killed many Japanese too. My question is, how can I bring myself to understand what he went through in that prison camp? I love him very much, and of course I am comforting him in his final days, but can I get closer to him by trying to understand what he went through, even though it's something a world away from my own? These days he says he just wants to see his wife, my grandma again (she was killed by a car many years ago) as the pain of his illness is too much, and he is sad because he thinks my generation have forgotten the war.He is Scottish but lives here in England, and he tells me that every day now he can hear the old pipes of his homeland a little louder.What can I do? Thank you so much.Pete, thanks for your answer, what I mean by this question is that he has had a good, long life, but in his last days he is stuck in the horrors of the war- he did not reflect upon it as much as he is now he is dying.NB- yes he does have the Burma Star Medal, I will look in to this- thank you

Toyota aren't what they were: they used to have a reputation as one of the most reillbae manufacturers around, but now apparently the demand for their product has got to them.

that it would literally be siwilrng around in the air and they would be working in it all day with no respirator or not even a mask to keep them from breathing it in. Now, all these years later, he and several of the men he worked with are severely effected. Some of them have died from mesothelioma (a cancer related to asbestosis). Luckily, my father has not gotten mesothelioma, but the doctor says that his lungs are full of the particles . The doctor described what happens the particles are breathed in. They are almost like little tiny needles. Over the years, they work themselves through the lung tissue all the way out to the lining of the lungs (pleura). Then the little needles sort of stick out of the lungs almost like tiny cactus spines and as the lungs move up and down with each breath, they scratch the pleural sac and irritate it. This causes chronic irritation which leads to all sorts of respiratory issues from shortness of breath all the way up to cancer. The reason it takes so many years to show up is because it takes it that long for the little needle-like particles to make their way through the lung tissue. It's a bad deal. I feel sorry for the men who did not know that they were working with something that would cause them so much trouble in their golden years.