Thanks for your service. We are better off for it.
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Yes, thank you all. I owe Veterans my life-my parents were rescued from a Japanese prison camp outside Manila in WWII.
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Was that the prison camp that the Japanese established on the campus of The University of Santo Tomas?
More of a Memorial Day thing, but my Uncle was killed in Viet Nam on my mother’s 20th birthday. (He was Corps of Engineers on roads and bridges and caught a land mine). I was only about 11 mos old, so my experience of it is limited to that fact that growing up I was confused about my mom on her birthday. Why would she spend much of the day at church crying on her birthday? Took me a while to catch on. I wish I knew him. The other 3 brothers are awesome.
His older brother also went, but managed to come back home (with all of the guilt that comes with that). He was a mechanic on base doing choppers and trucks and such. So unlike his little brother, he was usually behind the lines instead of on (or even ahead of) them.
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Yes, exactly that.
My best friend is a UST alumnus, and he has told me about the atrocities committed there and elsewhere in PH.
Wow, small world. “Fortunately”, they were civilians, he was a mechanical engineer for P&G, they were not treated as badly as the military prisoners.