Project Summary
After years of exhaustive fact-finding, writer Jeremy Edward
Shiok retraced the World War II tour of duty of his grandfather through Pacific
islands forever changed by the conflict. Shiok explored American Samoa, Samoa,
Wallis, Tarawa, and Abemama in search of answers no archive can provide, and crisscrossed
the U.S. many times over to interview veterans and their families. Now he's
writing a book about the history he discovered.
"I became enthralled with the idea that I could find the places where my grandfather served, that I could go to those places, and that I could stand in his footprints and imagine him there, breathing in the same unfamiliar air."
Jeremy Edward Shiok, from an interview with Samoa News.
Jeremy Edward Shiok, from an interview with Samoa News.