My uncle’s brother died in the Bataan death march. Their mother never recovered mentally/emotionally.Their father brought his son’s Philippina wife and son to the US and helped her start a seamstress business.
I just posted #21 about my mother’s brother being killed on Bataan. My mother’s mother died when my mother was 16 so she quit school to help her dad on their PA farm and raised her 3 siblings. My uncle joined the Army as soon as he was old enough so he had been in the Army quite some time before being sent to the PI.
When my mother gave his letters to me that I referred to in my post, she cried as I read them. We were on vacation from CA in PA at the time and she wanted me to have the letters but STILL couldn’t talk about it without crying...Even the letter my mother wrote to him on Christmas Day was among the letters she gave me - marked “return to sender”.....His letters before his death spoke of the feeling of “something” in the air and “probably from Japan”...I had them all laminated.