Shattered by the Wars: But Sustained by Love info
Shattered by the Wars won the 2015 SPR contest in non-fiction. Also it came in as a finalist in 2015 Beverly Hills Book Awards, 2014 Eric Hoffer Awards, 2013 Hippo Campus Magazine and 2013 Autumn House Publishing writing contests
I hate war. War kills. War maims. War orphans. And it leaves a deep scar not only on the land, that will take years to heal, but also in the hearts of those who are affected by the war. I am one of those who carry a deep emotional wound to this day, more than sixty years later. During World War II, under Japan, my father was imprisoned because he was a Christian minister who refused to bow down to the picture of the Japanese emperor. My elder brother volunteered to join the Japanese military in the hope of having his father released from the prison. He left home as a vibrant, fifteen-year-old boy and returned home as a worn-out, injured, eighteen-year-old man after the war; he died a year later. During the Korean War, two North Korean officers