An orange and grey image fades into his patchwork bedspread – with the boy seen in the background, kneeling and praying. “If your papa went away to war,” Lyon repeats again, this time adding to the hypothetical that he came back missing a limb or with a bad scar –“you wouldn’t...
I walk to the outside area, only to find him kneeling on the ground in the sun. At first, I thought maybe he was praying. I soon realized he was not. Me: Hi. Um, what are you doing? Fred: There needs to be a punishment. Me: For whom? Fred: For misbehavior. Me: For whom?
World War II ended with the defeat of Germany and Japan. The processing of defeat is always complicated and difficult, but it is especially so for nations that, as well as suffering greatly, were and are widely regarded as having been the aggressors in the conflict and responsible for atroci...