People, I had a neighbor who had been thru the japanese camps in burma, and if 1% of what he told me was true, he's tougher than anything else that ever walked ...MIND YOU I don't doubt one word of what he said, but 1% of what he said would make almost anything else seem like a mild diversion.
He and another POW having to carry teak logs out on their shoulders to the saw mills, even when they were soiling themselves as they worked from dysentery.