A Voyage Of Self Discovery

In 1945, when General MacArthur stepped onto the beach at Lingayen Gulf on Luzon, he was welcomed by a woman guerilla leader whose army had fought their way north through the Japanese lines to be there. The meeting was broadcast all over the world. My mother-in-law recognized the woman’s voice as that of a childhood friend who, years earlier, had met and fallen in love with a Filipino student at Columbia. They married and moved to Manila. When I arrived in Manila later in1945, I found them ...