Tastes Like War: A Memoir

by Grace M. Cho

For example, in August 2018, only eighty-nine out of 57,000 applicants would meet their missing family members after more than sixty-five years apart.

What complicated my grandfather’s illness was that all the hospitals had burned to the ground during the first six months of the war, as part of an American policy that destroyed civilian institutions, calling them “military targets” in the official record.