Hiroshima candlemaker honors 12 American POWs killed in atomic bombing
By MATTHEW M. BURKE AND CHIYOMI SUMIDA | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 30, 2017
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa — Eric Billingsley has long struggled to come to grips with the brutality and human suffering inflicted upon Americans and Japanese during World War II.
About a year ago, the 43-year-old Hiroshima resident — the son of a U.S. airman and Japanese mother — started a small business that would bring him in contact with Japanese atomic bomb survivors and the families of American WWII servicemembers who died in Hiroshima.
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