About the Author
When Dr. Calton Lewis mentioned Wake Island to medical students, patients, or in simple conversations with young people and received vague nods and blank stares, he knew that the story of his father, Seigel Thomas Lewis, had to be told. As debates rage about whether or not we should have dropped the Atomic bombs that ended the war, the author is compelled to tell this story about the forgotten brutality of the Japanese empire in its quest for world domination. It is a brutality that his father, Seigel, experienced first hand as a civilian prisoner of war on Wake Island during World War II and later in the prison camp at Niigata, Japan. When the media (portray, depict) Japan as a gentle nation, Dr. Lewis remembers the stories told to him by his father that contradict that peaceful image. Calton Lewis. M.D. has accomplished many things. He has filled many roles: a husband, a father, a step-father, a grandfather, a United States Marine (once a Marine, always a Marine), a firefighter, an orderly, a student, a teacher, a poet, a rancher and a medical doctor who was still practicing medicine at the age of seventy-four when he decided to write this book. Calton's son Gary was born in 1950 with a fatal cardiac deformity, inoperable at the time, and Cal and his family were exposed to the world of medicine. Although Cal lost his only son, he continued on the path of medicine and became a doctor. Cal, who had served as a civilian firefighter on the Camp Pendleton Marine Base for seven years, quit that job to become an orderly, taking care of patients in a small hospital in Escondido, California. He studied pre-med at Palomar Junior College, San Diego State College and eventually received his M.D. from the University of Southern California at Los Angeles in June of 1964. Cal practiced medicine in Monterey, California and then in Elko, Nevada, where he still ranches today. Dr. Lewis practiced medicine at the Owyhee Community H
