Atate Book Launch
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I spent a year working on getting the book "Massacre at Atate" by
Jose M. Torres published. It is a first hand account of one of the few
times during the Japanese occupation of Guam that the Chamorro people
openly resisted and fought back. There are countless instances of
Chamorros passively resisting, but this was one of the few moments that
I've been able to collect where you can point to Chamorros using violent
resistance to protect themselves. There are only a few men left who
took up arms against the Japanese in July 1944 and Mr. Torres was one of
the youngest at that time.
We had a reading in Malesso' a few weeks ago in the historic Merlyn G. Cook school. This was a followup to the large book launch that we had in February which was attended by close to 300 people. I came across this account of the book launch, that I wanted to share here:
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http://micronesianmission.blogspot.com/2015/02/wwii-historical-lecture-more-than-we.ht…
We had a reading in Malesso' a few weeks ago in the historic Merlyn G. Cook school. This was a followup to the large book launch that we had in February which was attended by close to 300 people. I came across this account of the book launch, that I wanted to share here:
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http://micronesianmission.blogspot.com/2015/02/wwii-historical-lecture-more-than-we.ht…