text:  But, you know, I never really got the gravity of what they had done or what they had gone through, like really what it meant. This understanding would come much later. But as a boy, Martin had a comfortable life. His parents both worked for the government. So Martin was busy being a kid, drawing, listening to music and his favourite thing, performing for any audience he could get. I was still in kindergarten and they had this programme whereby they had these activities at school.