Her Horrors of war
By LK2018
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
Philippines
August 10, 2016 6:34pm CST
There are moments were grandma and I talk about things about the past she rarely talks about. Until this morning I ask her about the experience she had during World War II, she cried a little when she told me the story.
When she was young, they used to hide in a bamboo where there was an under ground cave the size of two bed rooms. There people hide from the Japanese, covered in mud and their food source most of the time are salt and little rice.
Those teens caught are either rape or torture or killed. Even babies are killed by the Japanese soldiers through bayonet.
They only came out when the American soldiers liberated them, jumping for joy as the food supplies dropped from the sky.
She said we were lucky we didn't have to go through it. I wished though that their picture should have been taken that time, but camera was rare back then.
Photo Credits to.
http://ahrp.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Japanese-bayoneted-baby.jpg
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@SIMPLYD (90717)
• Philippines
15 Aug 16
@Letranknight2015 Yes , i am glad they made it back alive .
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
12 Aug 16
Hello @SIMPLYD crossing the river is hard as well, I mean what if there's japs or figher planes in the area? Im glad they made it back alive.
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@TheHorse (238317)
• Walnut Creek, California
3 Sep 16
My Filipino friends tell me that Filipinos still like Americans because America was instrumental in liberating the Philippines from the Japanese. There are streets there named after American Generals, he tells me. He grew up near Manila.
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. Your grandmother must have gone through some terrible times.@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
11 Aug 16
I was shocked when I heard her stories, I didn't think she was spared from the horrors of war, I was wrong. I'm glad she was never captured @jaboUK or else I wouldn't exist.
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@jaboUK (64346)
• United Kingdom
11 Aug 16
@Letranknight2015 No, you wouldn't be here. Coincidentally I've just done a post about my father's experiences in WW2.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
12 Aug 16
@jaboUK I've responded to the second post.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
11 Aug 16
I'm happy that she survives and chose to live after that @peavey She's told me this story twice and it was just sad to hear.
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@peavey (16936)
• United States
11 Aug 16
@Letranknight2015 I really don't know how people pick up and lead what looks like normal lives after living through something like that. I am sure you cherish her and her memories.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
12 Aug 16
well, that really happened @marguicha and she told me herself, she doesn't do internet surfing so i believe in her.
@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
11 Aug 16
Well, I'm just happy that she survived it all and now living with us today until she gets back to US @marlina
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@Sun7788 (260)
• Changzhou, China
11 Aug 16
My deceased grandmother once told me that in 1937, her mother took her to flee from their hometown to avoid slaughter of Japanese and she saw so many corpses lying all over the feild on the way which she would never forget. Afterwards, she found a job as a textile worker in the protection areas of Shanghai and never returned to their homes until victory of the War. Although my grandmother lived through World War II, the liberation war, cultural revolution, the most turbulent and tough times of China, she was still optimistic and nurture 5 children to adulthood.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
11 Aug 16
Hello @Sun7788 She was blessed to have survived all those Freaking years. You should be thankful to her, if she didn't leave their homes, you wouldn't be here having a conversation with me today 
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
12 Aug 16
@Sun7788 At least in the end they were able to live normal lives. that's more important, and a blessing compare to those who didn't make it.
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@Sun7788 (260)
• Changzhou, China
12 Aug 16
@Letranknight2015 Yeah, i really appreciate my grandmother, not only she gave birth to my mum, but had enormous influence on my childhood. Even the last man who experienced WW2 passed away, we should remember the history.
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@vandana7 (102698)
• India
4 Jun 17
If we keep visiting the past, we wouldn't be able to forgive somethings and move forward. Past should not be forgotten of course. It should be looked into only to ensure that wrongs are not repeated in future. I too heard of Nanking massacres. But if we go back into history there were cruelties in the era of Genghis Khan. That is Chinese against Chinese and others. Then there was Ashoka in our country. We all have those. Let us not carry prejudices where none exist.
@msiduri (5687)
• United States
4 Oct 16
Well, you break my heart. I'm glad you're here to talk about it, glad your grandmother it here to tell you about her life. What a horrible picture. How senseless cruel we humans beings can be to each other. And we tell each other it will never happen again, and it keeps happening.
Hug your grandmother for me.
@acelawrites (19272)
• Philippines
11 Aug 16
I heard those stories too from my late mother. The baby being thrown up then caught with a bayonet! Such cruelty, such sacrifices they endured in the war that was not ours!
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
11 Aug 16
It really wasn't because their goal was against USA and taking Australia, which they had to go through the Philippines for it but it didn't last @acelawrites
@theBlock (2657)
• United States
11 Aug 16
@Letranknight2015
Yes, I have heard of these horrific acts. So horrible!
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
11 Aug 16
yes they were true @theBlock and it came from my grandma herself.
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