20 years after a devastating tsunami, a survivor celebrates what the disaster has given him

The Asian tsunami that crashed into coastal communities around the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26, 2004, is this century’s deadliest natural disaster so far. KHAO LAK, Thailand — Watana Sittirachot was raised at an orphanage inThailand for children affected by the 2004Asian tsunami. Now, 20 years after the …