A Hero Tribute to Cuong Tran Posted by By Tom May 4, 2021Posted inAsian American History, Tran Family Memoir, Vietnamese Very few of us have had the opportunity to be a hero, let alone to save the life of a fellow human being. My father-in-law, Cuong Tran, was one such…
In Honor of Isao and Masako Sugimura Posted by By Tom May 3, 2021Posted inAsian American History, Japanese, The Church Behind Barbed Wire My earliest recollection of the Japanese American internment was of hearing my Obachan (“Japanese grandmother”) speak bitterly about what this country had done to her family. The war years (1942-1945)…