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Acknowledgments I extend my profound gratitude to a host of friends,professional colleagues, student-athletes, family members, and others who have lent support and guidance in putting together my story. Special thanks go to wartime friends, many now deceased, whose encouragement, materials, and recollections aided my writing efforts. They include Frank Cary, Natalie Crouter, Reverend Carl Eschbach, Ruth Zimmerman Eschbach, James Halsema, John Ream, Marilee Scaff, Father Robert Sheridan, Joseph Smith, Katie Ream Sobeck, Rokuro Tomibe, and Evelyn Whitfield. I also acknowledge my indebtedness to professional colleagues from Otterbein College, Ohio State University, Williams College, Pomona College, International Christian University (Mitaka, Japan), and the University of Massachusetts for their encouragement, guidance, and technical counsel in assembling this manuscript. They include Drs. Bruce Bennett, James Macgregor Burns, Stewart Burns, John Chandler, Carl Furuya, Thomas Kerr, Mika Marumoto, Richard Minear, Yoshio Niwa, James Wood, and Samuel Yamashita. I owe my immediate family volumes of thanks. They have not only been supportive of my writing, but have unselfishly devoted time to assist with research, photography, and organizing data. They include my parents Margaret and Walter Tong (deceased), my sisters Eloise Purdy and Annarae Hunter, my children Karinne Rae Tong Heise, Kyle Kumler Tong, and Kurt Walter Tong. My wife, Wavalene “Jinx” Tong, has been an immense source of support, providing guidance, patience, research, and love throughout. Unless otherwise credited, all photos are from the Tong family collection in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Jean Donati, Irene Gresick, Mika Hirai, and Deborah Varnum Tong were all extremely resourceful and supportive in detailing and refining the manuscript. To each one, I offer my sincere thanks. Our Modapo Hill home overlooking Davao holds memories of our life in the Philippines before the war. My Filipino friends often joined me in play on the hillside. Dr. Brokenshire is standing on the porch. ...