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Post by Registrar on Dec 13, 2014 8:58:48 GMT 8
Paul Whitman, proprietor of the website BattleofManila.Org announces that it has severed its relationship with the firm AV Manila and its proprietor Lucky Guillermo. Mr. Whitman had retained that firm to represent Mr. Whitman's publication Manila 1945 - Aftermath - for the purposes of publishing a sponsored offset-printed Manila Edition as part of the celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Commemoration of the Liberation of the Philippines. To that purpose, AV Manila well and faithfully executed the purpose of its agency. In due course, AV Manila was supplied with a number of computer files and intellectual property for the express purpose of re-sizing that publication from its published size (12"x12") to the lesser specification (12" x 9") as said to have been required by the sponsor. On the advice of AV Manila that it was unable to continue with the publication of the book in the 12" x 9" format, Mr. Whitman accepted the advice and the production of a sponsored offset-printed Manila Edition was mutually terminated. It has come to the attention of Mr. Whitman that AV Manila is moving to publish another publication, under a different name and by a different author, which it is entitled lawfully so to do. Information has been received, though, that the alternative publication includes one of the three featured articles published and illustrated in Mr. Whitman's Manila 1945 -Aftermath- publication, together with a number of image files associated therewith. Mr. Whitman objects in particular to the use of any item, computer files or intellectual property which forming a part of Mr. Whitman's collection of files specific to his Manila 1945 -Aftermath-, and which were not given to AV Manila generally but for a specifically designated purpose, to an alternative publication. Just because a thing may be legal or lawful, doesn't mean it should be done. That is what Equity is about, and it appears to be a little understood topic at AV Manila. MANILA 1945 - AFTERMATH - is available presently in a print-on-demand edition and as an Adobe pdf file from www.blurb.com/books/5784229-manila-1945-aftermathThe pdf version is for those who like the book but think that the printer's print-on-demand price is a f***ing rip-off. I'm sorry, the concept of an affordable offset-printed version died as explained above. An e-book version is currently under preparation and will sell at $9.95. Go with the original, please! Paul F. Whitman Brisbane, Australia.
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Post by Karl Welteke on Dec 15, 2014 10:47:51 GMT 8
Registrar, I looked at your book again, really an outstanding job. Thank for your kind words re the Villar Village in the Botolan Lahar field. Remember, Wednesday and Thursday (17th and 18th Dec.) 2 friends and I will check it out and deliver those books. It should be 51 km, over two ridges and walking thru a lot of water.
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Post by Andrews Cruz on Apr 11, 2020 2:30:30 GMT 8
Registrar, I looked at your book again, really an outstanding job. Thank for your kind words re the Villar Village in the Botolan Lahar field. Remember, Wednesday and Thursday (17th and 18th Dec.) 2 friends and I will check it out and deliver those books. It should be 51 km, over two ridges and walking thru a lot of water.
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Post by Andrews Cruz on Apr 11, 2020 3:13:53 GMT 8
My name is Andrew Cruz I am a Filipino,I just try to write hete to extend my gratitude,I do remember Al mcgrew and Bill Delich a US Veterans fought here at Philippines during WW2 they always visiting my father here at Manila sometimes between 1980 to 1990 he is a former POW at gabaldon located at Pasay City during the hard time here my family help them by trowing foods at night near at the window of prison camp.I know some story that my father told me about that time,and we honor there courage and sacrifices.
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Post by EXO on Apr 11, 2020 11:05:07 GMT 8
My name is Andrew Cruz I am a Filipino,I just try to write here to extend my gratitude, I do remember Al Mcgrew and Bill Delich a US Veterans fought here at Philippines during WW2. They always visiting my father here at Manila sometimes between 1980 to 1990, he is a former POW at gabaldon located at Pasay City during the hard time here my family help them by throwing foods at night near at the window of prison camp. I know some story that my father told me about that time,and we honor there courage and sacrifices. Andrew, you have much to be proud of regarding your father. Al McGrew was a good friend of mine, and I was with him on Corregidor two or three times back in the days when it was easy enough to afford to stay at the Corregidor Inn for two weeks at a time. Now that is impossible, except if you are wealthy. Al told me a lot about his time on the Nichols Field Work Detail, and the march down Park Avenue to Nichols every morning and home every night. He told me that foods were thrown over the fence at night, yes. Unfortunately I never got to the school where they were kept, it got knocked down around that time. Many people thought Al was sour, but I was able to break through that shell and discovered he had a great sense of humor, and my friends and I were able to always keep him laughing. He was the first person who allowed me to get inside his head, to understand his private thoughts, and this allowed us to produce "Amid the Encircling Gloom - Corregidor and Survival."
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