Internment Camp
Feb. 3 will mark the 54th anniversary of our liberation from Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, Philippines. Once again I wish to express our thanks and appreciation to our gallant rescuers, the 1st Cavalry.
We had been held prisoners by the Japanese for 37 months, enduring multiple hardships, culminating in slow starvation. Bombed by our own forces for five months, we endured this, since it meant our liberation was coming. The men of the 1st Cavalry gave up their own rations, showed unbelievable kindness to our children and admiring respect to all of us. God bless them.
KATHLEEN WATSON
Pasadena
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