Some things don’t change very much, or perhaps more accurately, tend to recur. Today comes an article about a continuing US Army presence reestablished in the Philippines. There is a lot of history between the two nations.
My father’s older brother - a West Point graduate (class of 1908) and career Army officer - was stationed there over a hundred years ago. I am uncertain whether this was before or after he served in France in World War I, probably before. At the time the Philippines was a US colony.
