Entertainment Writer What atrocity did Terese Svoboda's uncle witness when he served as a military policeman in occupied Japan in 1946? Svoboda, a writer of four books of poetry, several novels ("Tin God," "Cannibal") and short stories, was dragged into that mystery when her uncle began to send her hours of confessional tapes packed with his war stories. She learned her uncle, who wore "black glasses like Clark Kent," had guarded convicted fellow American soldiers in those post-World War II years. She learned mystery shrouded that place, that time. She learned that a number of those prisoners were black. That the mystery hinted they may have been executed. That the mystery carried "the stench of lynching." Svoboda's uncle sank into depression upon hearing about prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, and soon after, in his 80s, he...
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