THE LONG WAIT
There was this phosphorescent figure kneeling before her transformed mom. She was radiant with happiness as she gave him her hand which he brought to his lips. From a distance she could tell he was an officer in gala uniform. Ralph! “” I’ve patiently waited for so long too, my darling. But your ordained time had not yet come. But now, it has…so come, our friends await us and they are playing our song, can you hear it?” His reply was like an echo in the wind. THE LONG WAIT mimi illenberger mapa Bataan had just fallen into the hands of the Japanese when Carmen G. Duyan-duyan found herself widowed. She had only been married for less than fifteen months, when her husband Ralph, a second lieutenant , became one of the many victims of Japanese atrocity during the infamous “Death March” where thousands of exhausted prisoners died. On the long trek to prison camps, many Filipino and American soldiers, weak from hunger and disease, fell on the wayside.