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HalfMooner
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Posted - 03/04/2012 :  01:38:21  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
From CNN:
'Amerasians' in the Philippines fight for recognition

By Sunshine Lichauco de Leon, for CNN

Manila, Philippines (CNN) -- When Susie Lopez, 43, was a little girl she would run outside her home in Angeles City, near the U.S. Clark Airbase in the Philippines, every time she heard a plane fly by.

"I would say 'bye bye, Dad' because the only thing I knew about my father was my dad was riding a plane," she recalls.

The daughter of an American naval pilot and a Filipino mother, Lopez is one of an estimated 52,000 "Amerasians" fathered by American military servicemen during the decades the U.S. Navy and Air Force had bases in the Philippines.

The majority of their mothers worked as bar girls in the area's thriving "rest and recreation" industry, where soldiers were their regular clients. When the American military left the bases in the early 1990s, these children were left behind.

On March 4, in honor of International Amerasian Day, a group of 60 Filipino Amerasians from the cities surrounding former bases will celebrate in a special way. Their "100 Letters to our Fathers" campaign will see the group - whose members range from teenage to those in their 50s - reach out with messages of love and hope to fathers almost all of them never knew. Many of the handwritten letters will be read aloud and will be accompanied by their photos and a short video showing conditions Amerasians have faced.

. . .
Clark is not too far from Baguio.

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Dr. Mabuse
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Sweden
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Posted - 03/04/2012 :  03:39:11   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I saw the musical, "Miss Saigon"...
In London.

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 03/04/2012 :  03:52:35   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
According to my former coworker and present co-expatriate, Tony, who lives in Angeles City, the place is now filled with a mixture of middle-aged Yanks, Aussies, Brits and, for some reason, Dutchmen. Cheap booze and young available women are continuing the process of the spreading of Western genotypes.

But my feeling is that the US government should somehow try to help these people of mixed American-Filipino heritage from the old days when Subic Bay and Clark brought thousands of randy young men to this country. Their fathers, for the most part, didn't help.

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HalfMooner
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Posted - 03/04/2012 :  03:55:58   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse

I saw the musical, "Miss Saigon"...
In London.

Was the Filipina singer-actress Lea Salonga in it? (Edit: Yes, she was, you lucky bastard!) I'm told she's a mestiza from Angeles, herself.

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Edited by - HalfMooner on 03/04/2012 05:52:34
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Dr. Mabuse
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Posted - 03/04/2012 :  06:19:10   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Dr. Mabuse an ICQ Message Send Dr. Mabuse a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Unfortunately, I didn't see the original setup, but the 1997 one with Peter Jöback and Ma-Anne Dionisio (pics here).
Which was awesome in its own right. It was the very first musical I ever saw live.


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HalfMooner
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Posted - 03/04/2012 :  06:58:51   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse

Unfortunately, I didn't see the original setup, but the 1997 one with Peter Jöback and Ma-Anne Dionisio (pics here).
Which was awesome in its own right. It was the very first musical I ever saw live.


Very cool, anyway. I used to see a lot of musical comedies and operettas when I was a teen, produced by the San Diego Light Opera Company. They were performed at night in an outdoor theater by local casts. My first experiences of really big production musicals were Ain't Misbehavin', and Phantom of the Opera, both in San Francisco. Surprisingly, musicals don't really make a person gay, I found. But it may be that it works the other way around.

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