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68 [unreadable] St. Apt 12-A
Brooklyn 6, New York
10 August 1946
Brooklyn 6, New York
10 August 1946
Dear Emilio,
How are you? I have not heard from you in many months. I hope all is well and fine with you.
How are your wife and children? I suppose the kids are pretty big by now. I hope all of them are enjoying excellent health.
How are Eduardo, Ponying, [illegible], Ramon, and all the boys who used to be with me at the lighthouse? I miss them so much. And how are
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the rest of men in your unit? I hope all of their services to the cause have been rewarded by now.
Remember Villasor [not sure, somewhat illegible] the fellow with the Bretaña whom you met at Mindoro and who later was captured with Victorio but managed to escape? Well, his unit has not been recognized as yet. I know he did a good job at intelligence when we were together in Manila and the Sierra Madre Mountains. It is really a shame that units who did the job are having a tough time at being recognized while bandits and lazy
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good-for-nothing pseudo-guerrillas got all the honors and the gravy.
And how are your relations at Hukay? They were such fine people. I owe them a lot of gratitude. Please extend my best regards to them.
If you ever go to Mindoro and Talaotao, please remember me to all my friends there. I could never forget them – the all-out aid they gave; how they suffered with us.
Enclosed is a snapshot of me taken just after my
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discharge from the army. It was taken in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. As you know by now, I have been in civilian clothes for the past 7 months. I guess I will never wear the uniform again.
I am out here to do a little studying. I hope that when I go back there, I will have something worthwhile in my head.
Well, I’ll close for now. Let me hear from you soon. My very best to you and your family.
A friend always,
[Sgd.] Ben
[Sgd.] Ben
P.S. My regards to Perla! Ben
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Notes and references:
1 “MAJOR PHILLIPPS UNIT,” File No. 83, downloaded from PVAO.
1 “MAJOR PHILLIPPS UNIT,” File No. 83, downloaded from PVAO.
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