'Oh, my God. Look, the angels are coming.' Here is an article about the life of 95 year old Henry "Cowboy" Kusmierczykhey and his recollection of participating in the liberation of a brutal Japanese Concentration Camp in the Philippines. The detail in this article, his recollections bring meaning …
World War II
Trauma and Truth
When trauma does occur... We are living in times of racism, skewed values, and careless words. All can lead to war, and do lead to violence, in our country, right in the daily news. All past presidents would have used their national platform to bring peace and reconciliation within our …
Open Door
Open the Door I grew up with words like this, “It’s too terrible to tell you, it's too much. I do not hate the Japanese; they were cruel to each other too.” Those words came from my father, every time I asked him what it was like to survive WWII in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia). He never …
