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Post by Joe Romero on Apr 30, 2008 16:31:52 GMT 8
We lived at 12 Plaza Feruson now known as Roxas Boulevard. The Bay View Hotel was across the plaza from us. It was used as a garrison. Across present U.N. Avenue was a sleeper house. Plaza Ferguson had a fountain with a busted pipe that drained day and night for years.The earth was therefore muddy. The Japanese soldiers would throw their leftover rice into this quagmire. The wretched starving Filipinos would scrape this up by hand then suck on the rice/mud for the rice. The Japanese howled in laughter. The prostitutes also used the Plaza. They discarded smelly coffee cans of prophylactics in some kind of brown liquid. The wretches would wash them off with the flow from the broken pipe, dab them dry (I would have spiffed them up with itching powder) and by a side door sell them back to the proprietess. So these gallant sons of Nippon were ahead of their time in recycling and safe sex. Can you say "Hetai san arigato" ? (Mr. Soldier I thank you) I wonder how proud these men's mothers, sisters and daughters would have been. Joe Romero
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Post by victor on May 2, 2008 18:56:44 GMT 8
Where is the US High Commissioner's house/office?
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