Today (with much dust around) I recall a guy, Fred Rackstraw, not an airman but a L/Cpl R Sigs, a friend of my parents. Fred had been captured at Singapore and was on the Burma Railway, much of the time doing a secondary duty as a medical orderly. When I knew him his health was pretty bad as a result, but I never heard him complain. As a youngster he was a good friend to me, and I believe in retrospect had much to do with my parents not opposing my aviation, RAF and Towers ambitions. Fred died some years back, but I just found an nn-line In Memoriam to him. Bless you Fred, and all those who came back, and those that did not.