Seventeen Years Ago
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This month of January is always a time when pre-War II Territorians make a special pilgrimage hack through the past.
It was on January 23, 1942, that Nippon’s forces landed at Rabaul, when hundreds of our soldiers became POWs and other hundreds of civilians were in terned; when the NGVR was creditably “blooded” and proved its right to proud memories of brave deeds in action.
May Posterity remember this day as a pivotal point in the country’s history, when brave deeds survived the disgrace of defeat and Top Brass bungling.