In June, I had the honor of participating in the Kakehashi Project, a youth exchange program funded by the Japanese International Cooperation Center sending four groups from across the United States to the island nation of Japan for ten days. In Tokyo, we met the groups which came from Guam, Hawaii, and Montana, while our group of twenty-two represented The National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, and by extension, the Texas Hill Country. This trip was my first experience away ...