On the Spring Tide : A Special Kind of Courage
On the Spring Tide : A Unique Kind of Courage Books
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Ten hours after the strike on Pearl Harbor, Japanese planes bomb Clark Field north of Manila in the Philippines. December 10, they return for a massive daylight raid on the strategic naval base at Cavite. December 12, Japanese troops land at Legaspi. Manila falls January 2, 1942. The early chapters of this bittersweet tale are laced with notations from the war diary of teenager Jeanette West as she and her parents face thirty-seven months of constant dread and slow starvation in Santo Tomas prison camp in the heart of the captured city. Part II tracks the impact of that experience on Jeanette’s adulthood after she returns home to the United States in 1945. Part III builds a causal relationship between those three lost years of her youth and the fourteen-year siege of breast cancer that takes her life in 1993. This book provides an unusual look at the subtle, sometimes subliminal impact of untreated, prolonged traumatic stress over half a century. Most accounts of this disorder cover a far shorter time frame. A meticulous journal keeper, many of the telling quotations cited in Parts II and III are from handwritten journals that surfaced after her death.
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