O Lord, tho' the victor command our captivity sad and lowly, How shall we raise thy song so holy that we sung in our fatherland...
Charles Gounod's "By Babylon's Wave," after Psalm 137, sung by the Santo Tomás internees on May 16, 1942
Before MacArthur's return, thousands of Americans, British, Australians, Dutch and other civilians, who called themselves the "Lost Tribe of the Philippines," struggled to stay alive.
Cliff Mills