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[OPINION] Christmas 1942 and 2020
Dec 22, 2020 10:59 AM PHT
Tony La Viña
Our experience with today’s pandemic can best
be compared to the experience of our parents and/or our grandparents when World
War 2 came to our islands in December 1942. That was when the Japanese invaded
our islands.
Fr Roque Ferriols SJ, in his book,
Sulyap sa Aking Pinanggalingan (Glimpses Into My Beginnings), as translated by my English teacher Dr Sol Reyes), published by Ateneo University Press in 2016, describes the first day of that invasion:
“At daytime, we saw how lovely Novaliches was
in the Yuletide season. The sky was intensely blue and the poinsettia leaves