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Arlo · 25-04-2007, 02:01 PM

My great grandfather was a soldier during the early years of the war here in the Philippines.

He surrendered during the Fall of Bataan and was one of the 4000 soldiers who lived after the Death March (he escaped, but I'm not sure how he did it.)

Shortly afterwards, he was a guerilla who fought the Japanese and was rewarded a pension from the Americans after the war. (In our place, people who fought in the war had streets named after them, I'm not even sure why my great-grandpa didn't have one.)

25-04-2007, 02:01 PM	#22 (permalink)
Arlo Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Philippines Posts: 66	My great grandfather was a soldier during the early years of the war here in the Philippines. He surrendered during the Fall of Bataan and was one of the 4000 soldiers who lived after the Death March (he escaped, but I'm not sure how he did it.) Shortly afterwards, he was a guerilla who fought the Japanese and was rewarded a pension from the Americans after the war. (In our place, people who fought in the war had streets named after them, I'm not even sure why my great-grandpa didn't have one.) __________________ "Let's go" -Dwight D. Eisenhower. June 1944.