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...After graduating from the University of Missouri in 1956, he joined the Marines, and served as an infantry officer based largely on the Japanese island of Okinawa...
...credit a lot of your success to your relationship with your parents. Do you use the same techniques with your children? -Warren Sharp OKINAWA, JAPANI try. I said to my mother, I pray to God that I'm half as successful with my children as my parents have been. For any parent, to sit back and see your kids really enjoying each other, understanding each other, accepting who they are, is a huge...
About his father, Frank Gibney My father was a journalist, but before he was a journalist, he was a Navy interrogator in World War II in the pacific theater. He interrogated Japanese prisoners on Okinawa, which was one of the bloodiest battles of the war. He was horrified at the pictures coming out of Abu Ghraib, and even more so when he began to learn that this may have represented the kind of policy,that we were torturing people by choice, not by accident, and by direction, not by occasional rage. My father believed, in World...
...Keene learned Japanese at the U.S. Navy Japanese Language School during World War II, and worked throughout the war translating captured documents. He also interrogated - and sometimes comforted - captured soldiers in Okinawa and Hawaii. Keene told one desolate prisoner who asked why he shouldn't kill himself that he should stay alive to fight for the new Japan. That he has an empathetic nature should come as no surprise: What is translation, after all, but relating how others see the world...
What about an animal that isn't supposed to have any legs at all and yet still needs to get around? Fuji, the dolphin that lost 75% of her tail, had just enough left that researchers at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan could affix a rubber tail, designed by sculptor Kazuhiko Yakushiji, onto her mangled tailfin with reinforced plastic and metal screws. Winter, a dolphin that lives at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Florida and is completely tailless as a result of an injury from a crab trap, presents a much bigger challenge. Hanger Orthopedic Group in Bethesda...