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William Hamilton

William Reese Hamilton, author of Wonks (Eclectica Publishing Intl LLC, 2019), spent his childhood in North China and the Philippines, where he and his family were captured and imprisoned by the Japanese Army for over three years in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, Manila. His education includes bachelor and master of arts degrees in literature, and a mixed bag of experience: factory worker, lifeguard, ordinary seaman, English teacher, counterintelligence agent, Romanian interrogator, advertising copywriter and creative director. He left a fast-paced career in New York advertising for a remote colonial village on the coast of Venezuela. His work has appeared in over 20 print and online publications.

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What it Feels Like to Be a Captive Enemy

Robert Frost, who often used a farmer’s plain-spoken philosophy, had a neighbor say “Good fences make good neighbors.” But like Frost, I’m not so sure. For over three years of my youth, I lived behind the tall masonry wall of Japanese Internment Camp Number One at Santo Tomas University in…
William Hamilton
June 24, 2019