This Hiroshi Suzuki guy and his whole posse are going to stick in your head. He was patriotic as a child, then became a supervillain, and then redeemed himself, all in one amazing story. I’d even go as far as to say that his story might be as legendary as Malcolm’s! Once again, Hiroshi Suzuki
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1940, Saigon. The war was a little over a year old by now, but Saigon was untouched by it. The scars of combat were bleeding across the world. The Germans were setting up dominion across Europe and (thankfully) France. The Italians were working on establish a new empire that would hold the weight of
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If you guessed “Vietnam” or “Second Indochina War”, you’re correct. The next several years of Malcolm’s life would be the most turbulent he had, and I’m going to tell you everything he told me about his life, again, these years probably need a novel of their own. No, that’s an understatement, they’d need a series
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Malcolm Anderson was born on October 15, 1940, at home like his siblings. As he got older, his older brother Cameron began to bully him and Jack more and more. The two of them each had a baby crib next to each other that they lived in for their first three years, so Jack and
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The oldest child of Felix Anderson is Cameron Anderson, born in 1935, right at the time of the Great Depression. He’s the only one of the four who I’ve never met because he died long before I was born. From what Malcolm told me, he spent most of his childhood hanging out with friends on
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So if you haven’t caught on yet, Malcolm Anderson is my grandfather on my dad’s side. He’s the one who carries the Scottish blood in my family and has passed it on to my dad, and then onto me. During my video conference with him a few weeks before he died, I asked him a
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Chapter Two – Digging up the roots 10/22/2023 A few days after I first found the photo book, my mom eventually called us into her bedroom to decide what we were going to do with the mess. I guess she just couldn’t stand to see her room filled with books that most of us never
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Chapter One – The Photo Book I suppose I should start by introducing myself: I’m Marilag Anderson or Mary. I live in Los Angeles, California with my mom, my dad, my older brother Jason and my younger sister Ava. Oh, and did I mention I’m Korean-Italian-Mexican-Vietnamese-Scottish-Japanese? You likely didn’t catch all of that at
