by Jesse Adams IRUKA, JAPAN Hard-by our camp where in we spent those lonely hours Two roads lay forked among the silent pines But only one, the right-hand one was ours Which took us to our labours in the mines Each day we marched along that dreaded way To blood and sweat, the payment for our toil In solid rock we worked the live-long day Far from the sun beneath a foreign soil The other road which took the left-hand turn Led back along the valley to the sea Back to the towns, the railhead, and the docks The one way out when once again we're free We passed that corner time and time again But 'twas to the right we always strode And now with freedom here it's changed and so We're on our way back home down 'Freedom Road' Idea originated in Iruka POW camp Japan in 1944 and written on board H.M.S. Implacable on the homeward journey. October 1945 TEARS OF HEAVEN Were they the tears of Heaven? All the day-long rain Sent to ease the sorrow And wash away the pain Then the new day dawned The sky an azure blue These were the tears of Heaven I know this to be true So we were reunited After all the many years With our long-lost comrades By Heaven's falling tears Iruka, Japan Oct 8th & 9th 1992