Chapter 1 The Last Letter ...75 years ago.......As the war clouds rolled on the horizon in 1941, my father was in the Army Air Corps at Hamilton Field located just north of San Francisco. That October, all furloughs and passes were cancelled, they were ordered to pack up, "we're movin' out"...to where, they did not know. With a group of about 2,000, they got aboard the passenger liner President Coolidge and slipped out of San Francisco Bay and headed out to sea. As they slid under the Golden Gate Bridge, for many of these men it was to ultimately be the last glimpse of their homeland. Less than one in three would return. For those who survived, it would be another 4 years before they were to see this bridge again. The rumor mill had them going to South America, but once they were underway they learned that their destination was Manila, the Philippines. The trip was uneventful except for a brief few hours in Honolulu, and once they got to the Philippi...