Interesting history lesson

You know, instead of linking Steve at the Pub practically every day – which I’ll be tempted to do, since his stuff is so good – I’m just going to blog-roll him and encourage readers to visit there as often as possible.

Check out this post, in which he describes the horror of the Sandakan Death March (illustrated with a fascinating photograph of a Japanese “Gestapo” guy being interviewed by an Australian officer and an American translator, and guarded by an Australian soldier; picture, thousand words…)

And on a lighter note, dealing with a problem with his local bank, see here (and by “lighter note”, I don’t mean to imply that the problem is trivial; it’s just that Steve’s reply to an apparently wooden-headed bank officer is priceless. And it ain’t the Sandakan Death March).