I’m home in Japan as of two days ago but today–9 August 2009–Singapore is celebrating its 44nd birthday with parades, fireworks, concerts and flags flying from every building and balcony. Here’s a little story for you….It’s 1942. At the far edge of the world on the southern tip of Asia the British trading post Singapore…
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