After a while Don sat up saying he needed to get dressed and be going.“You can’t stay the night?”“Let me ask you... , do your neighbors know ...hat you do and are there any present or former students or parents that live in the immediate area here?”“Yes, most of them know what I do and there are some present students who live a few houses down. Why are you asking?”“I just wonder what they would say in seeing a car parked on your driveway overnight and then seeing me, the newly appointed. Quite how our officers made such a mess of things I’ll never know but within a couple of days we had been taken prisoner. If everything before had been beyond my experience, nothing could have prepared me for what followed. Almost immediately we discovered that our captors would not be showing us any consideration. Gerry, a mate, had been injured during our capture and was finding it difficult to march with us. A Japanese soldier beat him to the ground with a rifle butt and then used a bayonet. All of a sudden she felt a strong hand around her covering her mouth. She tried to struggle but the hold was too strong. She still couldn't make out who was the person dragging her down to the basement. She felt her legs weaken and as she was being almost dragged to the basement, she lost her shoes. Now her bare feet were touching the cold floor.Finally she felt herself being pushed in the basement. It was very dim inside and trying to recover from her arrival, she was trying to make out the. " "Mom! Stop, willyou?" I exclaimed. "Fine, fine," she said and smiled.We entered Rajat's house and it was quite a fancy apartment with threebedrooms and more. He ran out of the door seeing us and hugged us astightly as he could. He was genuinely happy to see us and so were we. Hestill had the boyish looks and was wearing a woolen cap. We entered thehouse and there was a fire burning in the fireplace and the room wasnice and warm. Mom being mom asked, "Rajat why are you wearing the capindoors..