My grandfathers left the Philippines before #WWII, though I think one of them, Mateo, lost a brother in the #Bataan Death March. Here is Mateo (blue dot) in 1927 when he was doing something with the U.S. military—“Member of the Master Gunner’s Office.” My grandfather was mysterious. He claimed that he was discharged from the army when he shot himself in the foot, but he had no injury. He claimed he wasn’t smart enough for an education, yet he wrote in beautiful script and taught in #Corregidor.