Chris,
When I left I moved across the country and started life all over again. Put it all behind me, as best I could anyway. Those I mixed with knew nothing about my background.
It was only in later years that I thought about it much, mostly because my kids started to ask questions I guess.
Like you birthdays were not celebrated, being hungry was a fact of life, cold and barefoot in the winter, there were some sadistic types amongst those who controlled us. All dead now, long gone.
I sure would have liked to have had a normal upbringing but you do the best with the hand that's dealt you.
I was fortunate I guess that I had the opportunity to make a fresh start and I grabbed it with both hands. I never spent much time looking back, not until recently anyway and that has been more of an academic interest.
Take it easy.
SD

http://www.infowars.com/its-a-wonderful-lie-100-years-of-the-federal-reserve/

there/is a reason..for everything..maybe your learning was with peers
those like you that needed the same learning[appreciating each-other]
the key being the learning of the awareness..of the other

i had two parents..but look at you..yes you didnt have..earthy/parental/presence..[in/this realm]..but surely you recall an..ideal/parent..of thy dreams..these are yours..these are the eternal..by all means...seek to know your genetic/generic..but dont forfeit the eternal for the temporal..[the ways with the means with the intent]

anyhow im waffling..my heart..isnt..in/it
i wasnt meant to be nightmare/a wasnt meant to/be a power worker
i wasnt meant to/be..a recovery driver..i dont know..what im intended tobe..maybe just an example..but im/over being alone..but trust no one

anyhow my guides are saying we should all send ghrayham..our photo
and get him/to put up a survey..asking us to accord..names to the faces

im sure we have met each other[in our dreams]
you could say its our self affirming/of dream thread
i figure we score hits..on/the right..names..misses dont count

but i rekon..[despite only ever only meeting grayham]
that..most us will instantly..know each-other[even though our dream-selves..often..dont even resemble..our physical/externals]

i..know belly and me..will know each other
even though..i..cant recall names..like sung wu..i could pick him out of a line up..[you im not sure of [i avoid conflicts in my dreams..but often our dream self[astral-self]..dont resemble true nor material or our temporal self...often/only our natures.

the teaching of its a wonderfull life
wasnt/noted on tv..this year..i suggest..thats a sign/of our time.

http://www.infowars.com/

There was still quite a bit still in the 70s Shaggy.

They had a backhoe digging foundations for a new police station while I was there. It suddenly disappeared. It had fallen into a Jap bunker attached to the Admirals bunker, but walled off with dirt, & never found.

The bunker was half full of 8" & 12" naval projectiles, the exploding part the gun fires. Fortunately no cordite, but the backhoe could have set the lot off when it landed on them.

Took 3 days for some very brave, [or foolish] men to get it & the shells out, & dump them at sea.

PS. For those who may not understand the above post, the bunkers were about 8Ft underground.

The Japs in Rabaul lived & did everything underground. The place was so heavily bombed that residents returning after the war could not find where their homes had been. Even the foundations had been destroyed & scattered.

Tunnel hill, behind the town was about 1000Ft high, & the Japs had tunnels from the harbor to the top, with large storage tunnels as well.

The submarine base, as it was known, was a tunnel dug into a hill right on the sea. They were supplied by a submarine towing 2 drone subs, as any ships that entered the harbor were sunk in hours.

They had a transportable slipway, they laid across the coral to deep water. This was laid at night, & the subs pulled up into the tunnel to be unloaded. The slipway was retracted before dawn to prevent detection. This system was only discovered after the war.

An interesting place Rabaul.

Hasbeen,
I knew an old villager in Rabaul who showed me around the area in the time I was there and pointed out places where atrocities had occurred when the Japanese took Rabaul in WW2. He had seen some of it first hand and it had obviously affected him as it did me in the telling.
We became quite good friends. We talked of many things and oddly enough he was not too keen on the forthcoming independence as he thought TPNG was not yet ready for it.
His sons views were quite different.
I was at one time involved in the training of locals and picked up a bit of Pidgin along the way. Strangely enough I still use some words on a regular basis but am not aware I do it.
Take it easy.
SD