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From November onwards, it is impossible not to notice that Christmas is in the air. Sparkling colored lights decorate town centers and...
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- Dec 3, 2015
- 2 min
THE ACT OF KILLING
My parents were Dutch. That makes me Dutch also; but I am Indonesian-born – a country which a Dutch writer, Multatuli, named: ‘The...
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- Nov 12, 2015
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DID THE BOMB ON NAGASAKI HAVE TO FALL? PART II
Continued from: Was it necessary for the United States to end World War II by dropping the second bomb on Nagasaki? The entire historical...
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- Oct 14, 2015
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DID THE BOMB ON NAGASAKI HAVE TO FALL? PART I
Was it necessary for the U.S. to end World War II by dropping two bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Seventy years later this question...
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- Sep 30, 2015
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REMEMBER ME — I CAN’T STOP REMEMBERING YOU
“Some of us die twice – the first time when earth and life disappears, and the second time when nobody mentions your name any more”. I...
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- Sep 18, 2015
- 1 min
FOR RENEE
Hello Darling, you should be so proud! The world has opened wide before you. At this time, allow me to send you some of the same words...
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- Sep 8, 2015
- 2 min
A DIFFERENT WAY OF AMNESTY
Despite my best efforts to manage my negative feelings towards the Japanese soldiers for killing, raping, and breaking the spirits of...
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- Aug 5, 2015
- 2 min
FLOWERS BLOOM IN THE DESERT
I would like to share an opinion of someone who, like me, spent almost 4 years in Japanese concentration camps during WW II. I’ve done my...
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- Jul 28, 2015
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ESABELLA’S DAILY BREAD
If you are wondering why it’s taken me so long to add to this blog, it’s because one of my sisters from Holland paid us a visit. She...
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- Jun 18, 2015
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REMORSE – BUT NO EXCUSES (PART II)
2015 could potentially be an interesting year for World War II survivors, which ended exactly 70 years ago – almost a generation ago....
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- Jun 5, 2015
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REMORSE – BUT NO EXCUSE (PART I)
Too often, it seems there are situations or coincidences that take me back to those years so long ago – years of war, prison, terror and...
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- May 14, 2015
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A HISTORY OF PAIN
In one of my previous blogs I wrote about the Dutch Royal couple visiting the Japanese Emperor and his wife. The last section of that...
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- Apr 22, 2015
- 2 min
SILENCE
“Silence” is a concept that instills many emotions for me. Abstract emotions, but often also very real and concrete. I love silence ‑...
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- Apr 9, 2015
- 3 min
JEANNE
JEANNE One of my few very dear friends is dying. She has been dying for quite some time, fighting against the debilitating, consuming...
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- Mar 25, 2015
- 2 min
FORGIVENESS
BlueInk Review is an organization that provides credible and unbiased reviews exclusively for self-published books. In 2014, I was the...
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- Mar 18, 2015
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ONE DAY…
I received a terrible verdict, my heart and mind shocked to the core; it made me numb, it had me breathless as I began to float –...
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- Feb 26, 2015
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FOR KARAI, MALIA
Hello darling, Just a bit of advice for you from me; for I am very old and your life has just begun You are a living wonder on this earth...
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- Feb 11, 2015
- 2 min
PETER
Not so long ago I received the NICC Magazine (Translated: Dutch-Indonesian Cultural Centre) which is focused on Indonesia, its people,...
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- Jan 30, 2015
- 2 min
RECONCILIATION?
Last year October King Willem-Alexander and his wife, Queen Maxima visited Emperor Akihito and his wife, Empress Michiko after receiving...
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- Jan 22, 2015
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“JE SUIS CHARLIE”
There is more than enough written about the executions in Paris, where many people (both guilty and innocent) were masacred within a...
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