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The Railway man

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NotTooOld Mon 23-Jan-23 13:57:44

How sad. Could be PTSD but if he never spoke of his experiences at the hands of the Japanese I don't suppose your friend could have known for sure.

Shinamae Mon 23-Jan-23 13:31:32

I have just watched this film for the second time, and again it has brought me to tears,such a powerful film.
My late friends husband was a prisoner of the Japanese. She said he never ever talked about it, and he went on to have a successful career as a bank manager and they moved to Jersey.
Apparently they had quite a large garden and her husband used to go out shooting crows, but one day he had been out in the garden a long time and not come back in and she went out and discovered he had shot himself and she thinks it was definitely to do with his memories of being a prisoner of war….🥺