D.W. Chang returned in Feb 1998 to Hanin Island where he was a forced laborer from 1941-45. He found the remnants of the labor camps and the many thousands of unmarked graves. He created memorial markers in the memory of his tortured friends.
D.W. Chang, a Korean now living in Grand Rapids, Mich., was 21 years old in 1941. It was his last year of school, and he had just begun an internship at a chemical company in Seoul.
One day at work, the Japanese Army came and took away all the ...