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[vvalkyri]

Contra was good, but now I fall down go boom. I forget why I wanted to post to LJ...

Oh right. With good reason Soundprint was on wamu on the way home. Half an hour about Korean 'comfort women' during WWII, and some of them currently. It is a part of history I wasn't familiar with, but the mental images were more than I bargained for. Need to

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[soubrettic]

I have problems too with hearing hard things and then leaving them behind.

[vvalkyri]

This was more the during. Japan took something like 100k Korean girls, mostly virgins, and spread them around the empire as sex relief for their soldiers. The sentence,, [spoler cut, triggery]" raped by forty soldiers a day " who would queue up for it, yelling "hurry up" and such. Was repeated more than once.

So it was far from a pleasant driving listen. here is theSoundprint couple paragraph synopsis

[soubrettic]

That is truly horrific.

[vvalkyri]

i put the triggery bit behind a spoilercut (works in comments) but if you got the comment emailed i realize you got the whole comment. sorry about that.

[selki]

I first learned of the Korean "comfort women" tragedy reading *Audrey Hepburn's Neck*, which I'd like my book club to read, if it weren't for the rough sex. Someone's written a serious graphic novel about it, IIRC.