Thank you to our faithful reader Betty, who wrote in with a most poignant personal response to Shirley’s article about war. It really touched my monkey heart to yet again see proof of man’s (and woman’s) inhumanity to man. Who knows, Betty’s Father may be in the heading picture above.

Betty from Australia writes:

Loved it Shirley, how I miss the father who took his life after a few years of trying to recover from his Changi POW years. I was too young to know him well before he went to World War Two. When he returned he discovered he had two pretty wild teenage daughters and a working woman instead of the docile wife he left behind. I did eventually come to value him but it didn’t prove enough for him to stay with us. How gut wrenching wars are.

I am grateful that I am a Chimpanzee, looked after in comparative luxury by you lot.

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

World War Student Chimp