Category Archives: history

Dream of the Water Children – a memoir of half worlds and unpleasant history

Posted on July 21, 2019 by

Fredrick Kakinami Cloyd is Black-Japanese, but actually he is Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and European from his mother’s side and black and Cherokee on his dad’s. He is Amerasian, a term Pearl Buck coined as she advocated for the many abandoned … Continue reading →

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D-Day and More: Keeping the Memories Alive

Posted on June 9, 2019 by

The 75th anniversary of D-Day brings up an important point: with the survivors of this heroic but tragic history disappearing every day, who will be left to tell their stories? The history books will give basic information, but it’s the … Continue reading →

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War Stories: They Shall Not Grow Old

Posted on February 3, 2019 by

What is the message of the documentary They Shall Not Grow Old? There is no plot, no storyline, no main character, no moral to the story. Instead, filmmaker Peter Jackson, of Lord of the Rings fame, champions the importance of … Continue reading →

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