If you saw the Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire, you will recall the jolt you felt as you read at the close these words about one of the heroes of the film:

Eric Liddell, missionary,
died in occupied China
at the end of World War II
All of Scotland mourned.

I remember seeing Eric Liddell just the day before he died. For more than two years of our wartime captivity, our school was interned in the same c…