Author: MCCCH

  • From Christmas 2023 to June 2025 – Tuwak Primary School in Bon Bon Annex, Patikul, Sulu

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    MCCCH

    From Christmas 2023 to June 2025 – Tuwak Primary School in Bon Bon Annex, Patikul, Sulu MCCC Hernandez For Christmas in 2023, I visited a friend who at the time headed the Army engineers in Sulu. Ma’am Nida was a gracious host who showed me the tourist spots being developed by the local government, as…

  • Nonfiction: D-Day Girls and Code Name: Lise

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    MCCCH

    #truestoryTuesday Tomorrow is Veterans’ Day in the U.S. and Armistice or Remembrance Day elsewhere and we thought we’d remember some female veterans today. In World War Two, the Special Operations Executive (SOE) trained thirty-nine women agents in Great Britain. Half were caught, and a third were killed. But some succeeded in their missions – blowing…

  • Nonfiction: Ghost Soldiers, Rescue at Los Baños, and Escape from Davao

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    MCCCH

    #truestoryTuesday In World War II, the Japanese invaders had prison camps across the Philippines while Filipino guerillas fought to push back the invaders and free the captured. For every POW, it was a race against a weary clock that ticked towards a death by starvation, illness, abuse, or execution. In Davao, twelve escaped – the…