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UpperWestside

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  1. The biggest reason to be out in the Pacific is that I wanted to take a journey through the countries that the Pacific War was fought in. It was also to be able to listen to stories of those who were alive when the history of the war unfolded. Most of the soldiers are no longer with us, but there are people who were children that experienced the war at their doorstep. I had no real idea how I would meet any of these folks or when, but a co-worker who is Filipino heard what I am doing and asked if I wanted to sit down and interview her mother. I said for sure I would. She took me over to Aiea where she stays up in the hills with her younger sister and their family. Her name is Maria and she’s 91 years old. She had turned seven in October of 1941. It wouldn’t be long after that Japan would invade the Philippines and show up in Leyte. I asked her what her and her family did. She said they abandoned their home and headed into the mountainous jungle to live. She could recall that time like it had just happened yesterday. She said for three years they subsisted on rice, fruits like bananas and vegetables like tomato’s to survive. She said they rarely made fires so the Japanese patrolling in their area would not find them. They had no pets due to the noise they would make. She said the jungle was their protection and that the Filipinos who stayed in the cities and towns suffered greatly under Japanese rule. Her daughter helped with translating and I mostly just listened to her and recorded our conversation that was about two hours or so. I asked her what was her first encounter with a Japanese soldier. She said it was after the US came back to Leyte. She recalled a Japanese soldier that snuck up on them looking for food. She said she ran away barefoot as fast as she could. She was laughing while recounting this. All the soldier wanted was food as the jungle was now his home too and when they came back later she said he had taken most of what they had cooked. I asked her what was her memories of the United States soldiers that came back and she said that the memory of going with her cousin to the American barracks where her cousin asked for food and kerosene. She said the Americans always gave them anything they had. She remembers getting corned beef tins often from them. I asked if she thought theUS would be back after Japan had seized everything there. She said she never doubted it even though she was just a child. She also could recall seeing an aerial battle where a plane was shot down over the jungle, but she did not know if it was a Japanese or American plane. She recalled that sight vividly though. The last thing I asked was what was it that has carried her through 91 years of life when the beginning of it was so rough. She said being happy and just thankful for life. Her daughter tha I work with is 59 and she said she has never once in her life seen her mother angry. She stays active with other groups of Filipinos here, she listed all th dances she can still do and she has made her own clothes her entire life. I saw some pictures of what she has made and Christ this woman should’ve been a fashion designer had she been born in another place. Her daughter had told me she had a sixth grade education and I asked about that. This was maybe cool because it helped her daughter learn something new about mom. She had a sixth grade education because beyond that the school closest would have required her crossing a river and then walking to school. It would’ve been two and a half hours one way. That meant the end of formal schooling. She would move to Manila and in 1954 at age 20 she would get married. I saw her picture with her husband. It was pretty cool. Same smile 72 years later and the same outlook on life of being kind to others and never getting upset over small things. The last thing I’d like to share is that due to her surviving in a mountainous jungle her family blossomed and her grandkids all took advantage of the American education she never could’ve imagined. One is a scientist working in Texas. Another is finishing up at UH Manoa. One that is in his 30’s got his law degree from Harvard and now is getting a PhD from Cal Berkeley. There are others, but I didn’t want to ask too much. I got to see her backyard where she still has a pet turtle, rooster, chicken, dog and cat. She has a virtual forest back there of fruits and vegetables and a mango tree. It was awesome. She used to have a pet pig back in the Philippines before the war and another after. Her daughter said the pig would follow her around like a dog. Anyhow this family exists because of one woman surviving a war living in crudely made bamboo huts with giants leaves to protect from the rain for three years. Next week I am going to attempt to meet her best friend that is 95 who had a different war experience win the Philippines that was not as pleasant. I just wanted to share this because you never know where life will take you or who you will meet.
  2. Haha. We did already on the other thread.
  3. Still waiting on @realgreggym to come back and tell us how amazing this all is.
  4. Democrats do not have the stomach for this fight. It’ll just take the average American doing the heavy lifting on anything for these fascists to get kicked out and face some justice. We are a nation of “Good Germans” and almost no one wants to lose their gravy train by being bold and fighting back.
  5. Stephen A. apparently has sided with the nazi ice agent. I would personally love to see Smith get hit by a NYC bus. MediaiteStephen A. Smith Insists ICE Agent Was ‘Completely Justif...Stephen A. Smith on Wednesday argued the ICE agent was well within his rights to shoot and kill 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
  6. I hope TFG strokes out and I hope this vile clown cokes out.
  7. If he had played against that typical Manny Diaz defense in the Sun Bowl he would’ve easily put up 250. Don’t blame him for leaving before then. Coach Dillingham said his pro comparison would be Kenneth Gainwell for those who like to know such things.
  8. Brown is a fantastic back. There was not really any kind of way ASU was going to be able to pay what he wanted. RB seems to be a position they are willing to just plug and play each year. I am glad he’ll play for UT though. He had a pretty good season considering his line in front of him was mostly not good. At least if UT doesn’t fix their line you know you have a back that can still produce with middling blocking in front of him. Playing in the SEC shouldn’t be a big deal for him. Just get the young fella a real line for the first time in his career and he’ll deliver the performances every UT fan wants to see, especially against OU and aggy.
  9. Glad for him. Now get the man a functioning line to run behind. Should be fun watching him destroy OU and aggy.
  10. I saw the BC wideout, Reed Harris, also committed to ASU. I know zero about him. That’s two of the top 4 portal WR’s for whatever that winds up being worth. It would be nice to have guys who are healthy next season at that position.
  11. I talked to him once years ago. He sounded just about like you’d probably think he would.
  12. My guess is he signs with Texas. He wants a guaranteed payday and that’s cool. I hope he gets it. I think Dillingham said his comparison to a pro back was Kenneth Gainwell if memory serves correct.
  13. UpperWestside replied to Zavala's topic in Daily Texan
    Garden variety fascists. This is still Italian-level fascism. Were I the EU I’d cut economic ties with us and cut off communication completely. I’d also, as I said in the World Cup thread, pull every European team from that event and get South America to do the same. It’s time to REALLY make Americans who wanted this trash running our country to feel economic pain like they are citizens of Papua New Guinea.
  14. That is more/less what I think as well. I do not pay close attention to the portal, but I see enough to know it does not add to any enjoyment of the sport. It is not hard to recognize that eventually the sport will be even more regionalized than it is now and almost all growth will come from gamblers watching the games. Hawai’i is now looking to possibly join in on legalized gambling. There is so much illegal gambling done on apps here that it makes sense to go ahead and do it so UH can get a cut of the profits.
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