He shared his pride in the United States and its military with his children, and eventually became a war correspondent. military, and after graduating from Stanford in 1954, he enlisted to serve for two years in Korea as a private during the Korean War. Rod felt a profound sense of gratitude to the U.S. During the liberation of Manila in 1945, he and his siblings ran for their lives toward the American lines, where GIs from the 37th infantry, the Buckeye division, reached out and pulled them to safety. Rod's mother, grandmother, aunt, and uncle were rounded up and killed, leaving him to care for his three younger siblings for nearly four years. The Battle of Manila was the bloodiest, deadliest, most savage engagement in all of World War II. He was born in Manila to a Scottish father and a Filipino mother and lived there happily until December 1941, when Japan's Fourteenth Army landed on Batan Island and opened fire on the Filipino population. Roderick Hall, a twelve-year-old Filipino boy, was there for all of it. The most important details in this text are the events leading up to the Battle of Manila, which ended a hellish three-year Japanese occupation of the Philippines and left more than six thousand U.S. Prologue KYIV OBLAST, UKRAINE MARCH 14, 2022
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