The pain of a 'boy slave'

Just imagine the life of a small boy, separated from his mother at age 10, and taken by Japanese Army truck to an unknown destination? What emotions and pain gone through his mind and heart? Rather than play and go to school, his lot became that of a ‘Boy Slave,’ in what came to be known as a death camp. The WW II story which is explained in the book of World War II is mostly filled with lot of suffering aspects, but we should take it as inspiring ones. Here below you read the story of that pain of a small boy little by little who underwent and witnessed many atrocities as a young boy. He reflects about it from his present situation.

In September 2, 1945, Japan’s Foreign Minister Shigemitsu and general Yoshijiro Umezo both signed the surrender document of the WWII. General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester Nimitz signed the document on behalf of the United States. Representatives of eight Allied nations added their signatures. The bloody conflict was finally over! And after 60 Years later World War II officially came to an end.

This brief ceremony represented momentous turn of events in the Twentieth Century — the finale of a war that was so utterly senseless, so costly in human lives, so depraved and destructive that it is well described as Total War. In every respect, that war with its estimated 55,000,000+ dead and many more millions wounded and displaced, mirrors the description of the ‘Ride of the horsemen’ in the book of Revelation, or Apocalypse.

The five years of the book of World War II, from 1940-1945, have had an immeasurable impact on human society that is felt even today, sixty years later, and will no doubt continue to affect life on this earth for decades to come.

Yet, in spite of its magnitude and impact on mankind, relatively few people today seem to have any real grasp, any realistic concept of the real horror and extent of the conflict. Names such as Hitler, Hirohito, and Stalin are as alien as Nebuchadnezzar, Nero, and Attila the sun. Admittedly, the majority of people alive today were not even born when that historic surrender document was signed on the deck of the battleship Missouri; but should the heart-rending lessons of our recent history be lost so quickly?

During February 2001 my wife and were in Hawaii for the wedding of our oldest grand-daughter Ellice. It was a joyful occasion, and I was privileged to conduct the wedding. The ceremony took place at sunset, on a catamaran off the coast of Waikiki. To see those two young people, with bright eyes looking towards the future with happy anticipation, was indeed a delight. It is our sincere wish as well as the wish of their parents that they will be spared experiences like those of WWII story.