Alumni of Stanley camp will always remember 1945 as the year they began to run down, finally, like clocks that have not been wound. Most of them slept a good deal and what weak emotion they felt was of an unpleasant kind.
Source:
Emily Hahn, Miss Jill, 1947, 264
Note:
This is a novel, but I suspect this gets close to the truth, for some internees at least.
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