SEREMBAN: Every time Merdeka Day approaches, V. Veeramalai, who has gone through hardship under the Japanese Occupation and seen firsthand the birth of the nation, will feel grateful for living in a free country.
He was only five when he and his older brother were forcefully taken away by Japanese soldiers from their estate in Batu Anam near Segamat, Johor, to work on an airstrip under construction in Chaah, Johor, in 1944.
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