* * * * * Flag of Burma. Rangoon, Burma Thursday, 21 st December 1995 Today’s flight was special, for I would be returning to the country where I was conceived at the beginning of 1942; when my folks were based at Chauk, north of Rangoon on the Irrawaddy River, in Burma. Historically, dear reader, many changes had occurred in Burma after 1942; most of it not good. In 1886 the British annexed Burma as a province of British India, and, until the war in 1941, under British rule the country enjoyed relative peace and prosperity. That all changed with the Japanese invasion, and Burmese politicians jumping into bed with the Japs, thinking they could help oust the British and begin self-rule. However, it eventually dawned on ...