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PAMPANGA Sangil: Even Santa Claus will be stopped at the gates (A lingering memory of Christmas with the GIs in Clark)
+ December 14, 2020 THIS is a flashback. This is a story good to tell because it happened years ago. This was before the pandemic and the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. I will retell it once again. Even the forty years of age will only have any faint memory of what was Clark Air Force Base, the largest military installation outside of continental America. We were neighbors. ( The Americans settled in this country at the turn of the century after vanquishing the Spaniards in the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898. They were neighbors since Fort Stotsenberg in 1902 until their sudden departure in June 1991).