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Scars on body fades by time but scars on mind can never be forgotten. The emotional effects of war on prisoners of war can be difficult and it seems unfair to the family of the veterans. Post-traumatic stress disorder in prisoners often makes them recall and re-experience them of the trauma. War had thus been proven to be a scarring experience for the prisoners of war. Intense experiences shape and change those who experience them. Torture during interrogation often includes methods that do not physically assault the body or cause actual physical pain and yet entail severe psychological pain and suffering and profoundly disrupt the senses and personality. Richard Flanagan in his Man Booker Prize novel The Narrow road to the Deep North describes how his father and other prisoners of World War II suffer in the hands of the dominant Japanese.