Thursday, January 4, 2018

Mactan, Fifty Years Ago and Now, by #ceciliabrainard #VietnamWar





"The American servicemen overran Mactan and Cebu for a few years. Before the Vietnam War ended in April 1975, the huge number of Americans in Mactan and Cebu petered out. Eventually, the Mactan Air Base was turned over to the Philippine Air Force. The honky-tonk bars and colorful girls vanished along with the young men who had walked the streets – my streets -- of Mactan and Cebu. Now, 50 years later, the memory of the American Air Base and the Americans in Mactan has grown dim and distant, like ghosts, almost forgotten." 

📚~ Cecilia Brainard


From “Mactan, Fifty Years Ago and Now”
Read the whole article at:

http://www.positivelyfilipino.com/…/mactan-50-years-ago-and…
&
http://cbrainard.blogspot.com/…/mactan-50-years-ago-and-now…



Tags: #ceciliabrainard  #Vietnam #war #Cebu #Philippines #military #goodread

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