Forgiveness
Questions for Chick
Mr Henderson, Chick, could you feel forgiveness for, towards the Japanese?
I can’t do that. As I tried to explain to start with, I was trying to explain what it was like and what these people did to us, and there was no necessity for it really. I mean, I know they were having a tough time trying to feed us, but the brutality, what they did to us for the sake ... well nothing. As I’ve said before, they had this bushido, it was their culture, right or wrong, but by the same token they were hurting people for no reason at all. We were working, we were doing what we were told ... I wouldn’t say doing our best, but we worked hard for the most part. I mean, these lads on the railway[i], you know, a death with every sleeper that was laid. But we worked in the shipyard and got kicked about. What they did to us, you can’t forgive them for that, which I can’t. A few years ago I bought a Japanese car, which nearly broke my heart. No, I can’t, sorry.