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Limerick: 80 years since Liberation Day by Martin Meadows

Santo Tomas Internment Camp Liberation, 1945

80 years since Liberation Day
(3 February 1945 – 3 February 2025)

    Eighty years since the Day of Liberation
    From Santo Tomas Camp’s concentration;
         But that caused cessation
         Of the three-year duration
    Of an all-expense-paid free vacation

                Martin Meadows, ex-STIC internee

    Listing of articles by Prof. Martin Meadows (arranged mainly by latest date of posting):

    • Limerick: 80 years since Liberation Day
    • The Ubiquity of Iniquity or STIC’s Lasting Impact
    • Book Review: Waiting for America (published in Beyond the Wire, July 2024)
    • My Three Years in a Quandary and How They Passed (in STIC)
    • The Smothers Family’s link to Philippines
    • A WWII Manila Prison Camp’s Maestro of Mirth
    • A Spooky STIC Short Story
    • WWII STIC Icon Helps Solve a Mystery
    • Tennis Great’s link to the Philippines
    • The Bar Mitzvah of a WWII Axis Internee
    • The Contrasting Cases of American and Japanese-American World War II Internees
    • STIC Signature Songs (and Sources)
    • Encounters with STIC Guards
    • Santo Tomás Liberation
    • A Post-Internment Wrestling Chronicle
    • Impressions of an Itinerant Internee: My Varied Lodgings in STIC
    • A Little-Known STIC Episode
    • The STIC Tissue Issue*
    • The STIC Tissue Issue, Part II: The Women’s Perspective

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