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Looking Back: Americans in Mactan Philippines

January 15, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

I’m shar­ing a pic­ture cir­ca 1966 show­ing a group of us pos­ing with mil­i­tary ser­vice men from the US Base in Mac­tan. Dur­ing the height of the Viet­nam War, 1965–1968, the Amer­i­cans built a mil­i­tary base in Mac­tan which housed the 772nd and 774th Troup Car­ri­er Squadrons and oth­er ser­vice­men on R&R there. When the Amer­i­cans left, the Amer­i­can base became part of the Cebu Air­port. But while the Amer­icans were there, you can imag­ine the honky tonk bars in Mac­tan and also in Cebu to enter­tain the Amer­i­cans — twin­kling lights and col­or­ful women all over the place!


I’m also shar­ing a link to my arti­cle enti­tled, “Mac­tan, 50 Years Ago and Now”:

http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/magazine/mac­tan-50-years-ago-and-now


This par­tic­u­lar pho­to was tak­en at my home dur­ing a cos­tume par­ty. The pic­ture shows, front row l‑r: Bing Velas­co, Cecil­ia Manguer­ra, Ana Manguer­ra hold­ing Pat­ty Manguer­ra, Man­ny Gon­za­lez, Noe Ilano; stand­ing l‑r: Guest, 3 Amer­i­can ser­vice­men, Guest, Jaime Picornell.

Tags: #viet­namwar #mac­tanair­base #mac­tan #cebu #viet­nam­con­flict #mil­i­tary #war

Filed Under: Nonfiction, Uncategorized Tagged With: mactan air base, military, Vietnam War, war

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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