Holding the torch for America

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El Nido to Puerto Princessa (230 km) 5 1/2 hours

ood deeds? I am not sure I can call what I did a good deed but I think I might rightly call it a passing on of the remembrance baton. I was in the Philippines this year and I happened to be on the Island of Palawan travelling the long incredibly winding road down from El Nido in the north, to Puerto Princesa City in the south. The trip took about five hours. During that time, a young American man was sitting next to me. He was alone and travelling back to Seoul after an extensive trip. He conveyed he travelled a lot and had also been to many of his own countries hot spots. I asked him — among other things — what sights he visited in Palawan. He rhymed off a few known locations, and yet one spot he did not mention. So I asked him if he had gone to the US memorial site of the WWII Palawan Massacre? “No” he replied, “What’s that?” 

I then conveyed this abridged story: