yesterday at lunch my grandpa/ah-gong was talking about his last year of medical school, when all the universities were shut down and all the students were conscripted. they were stationed at a beach, in case the americans decided to attack the japanese from there. they spent their days digging trenches. in theory, if the americans landed, their vehicles would fall into the trenches.
the students starved - they had no food and raided neighboring farmers for yams. in theory, if the americans arrived, he and his peers were supposed to fight them, even though they were only a bunch of would-be doctors with no guns or other form of weaponry.
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