SINGAPORE (AP) - Britain's armed forces minister joined hundreds of World War II veterans, some in wheelchairs and leaning on canes, who commemorated fallen comrades at dawn Monday on the 60th anniversary of the surrender of Singapore by Japanese forces.
At a war cemetery lined with thousands of white tombstones, veterans from Britain, the United States, Australia and New Zealand stood in silence as a Singapore Police Force officer played a mournful tune on bagpipes.
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