Korean War: The Veterans Of Imjin River
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What Happened to Me?
We used to take the micky out of them terribly. And if you did it quick enough, even the good english speaking commissade couldn't understand you. But occasionally they got the gift. We wo sing songs like, mousy tong mouse tonge, who lung dong at mousy tonge. And of course, the consequence was pretty dire. One man in the camp called derrick kinney. He tried to escape five times. Each time he was brought back. The chinese were quite within their right to shoot you if you escaped. So you were always conscious when you escaped of getting a bullet in the back - which is what happened to me. I didn't
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