Even as fighter pilots who lived through Singapore’s most turbulent times, including the Occupation, leave the scene, there still may be some things left to be shared, and people who can share them, to inspire and educate us, wrote Dr Shashi Jayakumar, head of the RSIS’ Centre of Excellence for National Security at NTU. One example is “Winkie” Ho Weng Toh, 98, who during the war joined what became the legendary Flying Tigers as a bomber pilot, cheating death on numerous occasions. Dr Jayakumar, chairman of the National Archives Advisory Committee, thinks there may be more with great stories to tell but have been overlooked.