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Embassy of the Philippines:
Author presents book on American Family's World War II experience in Mindanao
Dear Ginger,
A few lines to tell you how much I enjoyed your thrilling book. I must confess that I knew little about the war in the Pacific except for the names of certain famous personalities and battles and, of course, the fact that the Japanese invaded many countries and were a cruel enemy. I am, of course, much more conversant with the war in Europe having lived through it myself. I used to think that we were deprived in England during the war from l939-45--severe food and clothing rationing, a very meagre diet, grey-looking bread, no butter, powdered eggs and milk, barely any meat, no candies or cookies, black-out conditions, very little light and heat, cut-up squares of newspaper for toilet paper, the terrible bombings of our major cities and ports, carrying our gas masks with us to school, and the ever-present threat of a German invasion but it was nothing compared to the scary conditions which you and your family endured and the fact that you had to constantly keep moving to stay ahead of the Japanese, not to mention having no shoes to wear and barely any clothing.
It truly is an amazing and exciting story that you have related; it kept me up late at night because I couldn't put it down.
Olive Edwards
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