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Post by Registrar on May 8, 2016 8:14:31 GMT 8
FIRST IMPRESSIONS MATTER MORE THAN YOU THINKAs an Australian, I didn't grow up with legendary tales of American triumphs, tropes and tragedies, although Superman comics and Tales of the Texas Rangers on TV were pretty damn good. Serious reading was for the stories like Reach For the Sky, The Dam Busters, Escape or Die, and The Great Escape, the classic English fare. (Incidentally, all written by Paul Brickhill, an Australian.) It was a very ETO view of the world. Like they say, it's tough when you don't know what you don't know. That might explain the effect that Corregidor had on me when I first visited it in 1975. I could see remarkable wreckage all around, the debris of war and thirty years of overgrowth, and I realized that I knew next to nothing about any of it. Clearly, I would need some R & R - "Research and Return." This images in this post are hot-linked out of the CORREGIDOR HISTORIC SOCIETY (Public Group) Facebook Page. Please visit us and join the welcome hoi polloi commentary fest. Membership of the Education Website requires signing up.
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