Liberation Day

Today marks the day when the armies of the United States liberated Guam from the Japanese but before that my people suffered greatly.

When the Japanese forces learned of the American armies advancing they began to massacre the Chamorro people. In one part of the island the soldiers took the villages strongest and tallest men out into an open field where they were shot down and in another they lead villagers into caves where they began to bombard them with grenades, those who survived were shot or stabbed with bayonets. My grandparents were one of the lucky ones to survive those dark days.