• Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, on May 15, where members of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church were meeting when a shooting occurred. David Chou and Pastor Billy Chang spent their whole lives forging parallel paths — but over several decades, they carried with them vastly different memories and views of the island of their birth. | MARK ABRAMSON / THE NEW YORK TIMES
    Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, California, on May 15, where members of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church were meeting when a shooting occurred. David Chou and Pastor Billy Chang spent their whole lives forging parallel paths — but over several decades, they carried with them vastly different memories and views of the island of their birth. | MARK ABRAMSON / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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David Chou and Pastor Billy Chang spent their whole lives forging parallel paths. They were born in early 1950s Taiwan, grew up just miles apart during martial law and later rebuilt their lives in the United States.

But over several decades, they carried with them vastly different memories — and views — of the island of their birth.

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