Cecilia Brainard Childhood Pictures

I’m shar­ing two child­hood pic­tures that I recent­ly cleaned up. The first one is the only sur­viv­ing pic­ture of me as an infant.  This shows my old­est sis­ter Vicky car­ry­ing me, my sis­ter Ana, and my broth­er Jess or Junior.  This pho­to was tak­en in our tem­po­rary home in Tal­isay, Cebu. We stayed there for a few years after World War II, while my par­ents built our home in Cebu City behind the Capitolio.

The sec­ond pic­ture shows my broth­er Jess, sis­ter Ana, and me at Liloan Beach in Cebu. In the back­ground is a remant of a World War II land­ing craft.  I was born after the war but now I real­ize I grew up sur­round­ed by evi­dence of World War II. It took Cebu and the rest of the Philip­pines year to recov­er from that hor­rif­ic war.

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