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The Daily Courier
Ronny Herman de Jong, a survivor of the Japanese internment camps of World War II, translated her mother’s journal chronicling the family’s ordeal from Dutch to English and compiled it into a book, “In the Shadow of the Sun.”
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Not until Ronny Herman de Jong looked down at the seal signifying Japan's surrender in World War II did the magnitude of her early childhood experience dawn on her.
She was standing on the deck of the U.S.S. Missouri, anchored in Bremerton, Wash., among the guests observing the 50th anniversary of V-J Day, the historic event that officially ended the war.
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