Tag / WWII
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Memories From Micronesia: Driving Chuuk’s Ghost Fleet
Imagine, if you will, traveling over twenty-four hours on three different planes from the Eastern United States, observing one sunset through your jetlag while somehow landing nearly two days later. Your final destination is a small airport, barely four rooms large. Dazed and discombobulated, you haul your bags from the baggage bin to the airport’s…
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Age Never Matters
Commentators have a habit of describing a certain generation of people as sharing common characteristics by placing them in the same generational set. For example, people in their 20s and younger are known as millennials. The commentators called people born between 1946 and 1964 “baby boomers,” and people of a later generation “Generation X.” Critics…
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No Justice for “Comfort Women”
BY SAMUEL LEITER During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army adopted a policy that forced somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000 women into prostitution. These women came from both Japan and the nations conquered by Japan during World War II, including Korea and China. In 2007, the current prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe,…
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License to Destroy
BY SONYA SCHOENBERGER In 1863, President Lincoln’s critics denounced the Emancipation Proclamation as a barbaric violation of the laws of civilized warfare. By emancipating slaves behind Confederate lines, they argued, the Union had utterly dispensed with the restraints of enlightened military conduct. Northerners and Southerners alike viewed the proclamation as nothing more than the incitement…
