A sunset picture which I took from the balcony of our Guamanian hotel. Over the last four hundred years Guam has been under the control of the Spanish, the Americans, the Japanese, and finally America. We spent a day with the governor of Guam (a professing Evangelical Christian) who reminded us that “America’s day begins in Guam.” Guam’s economy is completed supported by two factors—-the American military and the tourist trade which (ironically in light of the mass executions of Guamian Chamorrans by the Empire of the Rising Sun) is 95% Japanese. Every single Chamorran with whom I spoke had lost at least one or two family members to decapitation, crucifixion, rape or torture during the Japanese invasion sixty years ago.