Å holdover refuge from an event as traumatic as the Second World War can bring a lot of emotions out to the casual observer, and it takes a special kind of journalist to be able to take what is right before their eyes and translate it into a narrative that is understandable and that echoes the complex feelings they are having.
I once had the unusual privilege of talking with a man who had been enlisted in the United States military while his family was relocated in a concentration camp for Japanese Americans. Having an intimate rendezvous with history like that can really change the way history is perceived in our minds — away from epic and interesting black and white stories on the History Channel and further towards inherited memories of our ancestors.
Great job and congratulations to the Marianas Variety for printing quality journalism.
MICHAEL POWELL
Ordot, Guam
