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Jake_Dragon
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MAY 17, 10:14 AM
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ls3mach
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MAY 17, 03:12 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by Jake_Dragon:
Hasn't posted in 3 days. I hope he is ok. |
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I noticed his absence too. Usually he is blowing this place up with post.
Hope Mike is okay.
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williegoat
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MAY 17, 07:18 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by ls3mach:
I noticed his absence too. Usually he is blowing this place up with post.
Hope Mike is okay. |
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He is probably in his secret underground laboratory, plotting his revenge.
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blackrams
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MAY 18, 08:23 AM
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I tend to use my entire lane and don't like sharing it with anyone so, my advise would be to stay out of the lane for trucks with traiers.  My vehicles don't roll coal so, you're safe there. Other than that, I don't drive in Canada so, you're safe from denting up my bumper.  But, just so you know, if you do damage my bumper, you will be held accountable.
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MidEngineManiac
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MAY 18, 01:09 PM
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82-T/A [At Work]
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MAY 19, 08:27 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
He is probably in his secret underground laboratory, plotting his revenge.
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I've been to this bridge! The new one obviously... there's still a train that goes across it... and if you're on the bridge as the train is coming, there's little balconies (if you will) that you can step on so you don't get run over. There's a museum nearby that talks about it... unfortunately, I don't remember the history, and it's been a lot time since I've watched the movie. I just remember that the statues that they used basically have naked American GIs... I guess they were being used as slave labor and worked so hard their clothes fell off? I don't know... I couldn't read Thai.
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williegoat
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MAY 19, 09:33 PM
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Did you ever see the Jerry Lewis movie
Geisha Boy?
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rinselberg
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MAY 20, 12:35 AM
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| quote | Originally posted by 82-T/A [At Work]:
I've been to this bridge! The new one obviously... there's still a train that goes across it... and if you're on the bridge as the train is coming, there's little balconies (if you will) that you can step on so you don't get run over. There's a museum nearby that talks about it... unfortunately, I don't remember the history, and it's been a lot time since I've watched the movie. I just remember that the statues that they used basically have naked American GIs... I guess they were being used as slave labor and worked so hard their clothes fell off? I don't know... I couldn't read Thai. |
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I think that most of the Allied POWs that were brutalized during the construction of the River Kwai railroad and bridge were from the British Army. But the largest group, by far, that bore the brunt of the Japanese brutality in Southeast Asia, and along the River Kwai in particular, were civilians from the various countries and territories that the Japanese invaded in their quest for the Japanese Southeast Asian "Co-Prosperity Sphere."
These were ordinary people, not Allied soldiers, that were taken by the Japanese from their homes and transported to the River Kwai and elsewhere as a forced labor construction workforce for the Japanese. They were either taken by force by the Japanese for this purpose, or induced to volunteer for it by the promise of something slightly more appealing than the Japanese were going to allow for them under Japanese occupation. "Be Happy In Your Work (and we'll feed you.)"
People from the Philippines, or Korea, or Indonesia, or what is now Malaysia, and anywhere else that the Japanese invaded.
They were "yellow" people, almost without exception.
That's what I remember from the TV documentary that I saw about it, quite some years ago. "The Real Story of the Bridge On the River Kwai" or something very close, in terms of how anyone would search for it online.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 05-20-2022).]
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