Rabu, 26 Juli 2017

Moving Target

After the Japanese occupied the Philippines, one American family found themselves on a run for their lives. Coming from most adolescent boys, this statement might be dismissed as idle prattle. But 14- year-old Clifford Schuring knew it to be true. He knew that in July and September of 1943, the Japanese army had conducted “punitive …

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