Changi Museum marks 70th anniversary of World War II
By Karen Ng | Posted: 08 December 2011 1810 hrs
SINGAPORE: Seventy years ago on December 8, the first World War II
bombs fell on Singapore, just before the break of
dawn.
Changi Museum held a remembrance ceremony on
Thursday to mark that day in 1941.
The laying of a wreath and a minute of silence was
observed for the Singaporeans who sacrificed their lives in World
War II.
Changi Museum held the ceremony to remind
Singaporeans not to take national security for granted, even in
times of peace.
But for one former prisoner of war, memory still
lingers.
Jimmy Chew, former Prisoner of War, said: "There
were about 5,000 prisoners of war in the camp. You know the 'atap'
huts, all closed up, no windows. So we took a knife, cut a hole for
ventilation. When the Japanese discovered (what we did), they were
very mad. So they took all of us in the field, we were made to slap
each other, many many times, and we were made to run around the
field until we dropped 'dead'."
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