AS FAMILIES contemplate their Christmas arrangements in this most extraordinary of years, many will find it hard to accept that this cannot be like any normal year and that we may not be able to visit our loved ones. But let us remember that this is the 75th anniversary of the repatriation of our Far East Prisoners of War (FEPOW) to Southampton and Liverpool around this time in 1945. Perspective may be able to enlighten our thoughts at this time. When tens of thousands of British and Allied troops, quite apart from the thousands of civilian women and children, were either captured or interned by the Japanese in the Second World War, they could hardly have imagined they would not see their loved ones for at least three or four years.