WEEKLY STANDARD
by Warren Kozak
August 15, 2015

Humanitarians in uniform.

Many years ago, I struck up a conversation with a Dutch businessman in a hotel in China. In the course of our discussion, I learned that he had been born in Asia, in the Dutch East Indies, today known as Indonesia. I quickly calculated that he was old enough to have been alive during World War II, so I asked what happened to him? He told me that he and his parents spent the entire war in a Japanese prison camp. “What was that like?” I asked. He explained that because his family entered the camp when he was 3 years old and were liberated when he was 8, he really had no basis of comparison to anything else.“That’s all I knew,” he said. “That was really my whole life up until then.” READ MORE