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Despite repeated calls by family and supporters in the Bay Area and abroad, pleas for an investigation into the shooting have yet to be answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, amid\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893019057/why-rights-groups-worry-about-the-philippines-new-anti-terrorism-law\"> international concern over the sweeping authority of a new so-called anti-terrorism law in the Philippines\u003c/a>, Lee, an environmental activist from the Sunset District, says he believes it's his duty to continue to advocate against human rights abuses in the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am believed to be the first American targeted by President [Rodrigo] Duterte's counter-insurgency plan for defending human rights and promoting indigenous people's rights as a community journalist and environmentalist,\" said Lee at a press conference on Thursday. \"However, I can be considered one of the fortunate ones who have survived, because I could've easily been one of the 30,000 fathers, sons, mothers and children who have been killed brutally, mercilessly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/04/philippines-police-may-have-killed-tens-of-thousands-with-near-impunity-in-drug-war-un\">with no due process whatsoever.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is why despite my permanent injuries, and physical hardship, I believe it is my duty to continue to lend my voice when and where I can,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Thursday press conference, Lee called for the end to U.S. military and financial aid to the Philippines through the \u003ca href=\"https://humanrightsph.org/\">Philippine Human Rights Act\u003c/a>. In April, the U.S. granted $5.3 million in assistance to the Philippines in its fight against COVID-19, but activists fear the Duterte administration has instead\u003ca href=\"https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/arms-sale-philippines-rodrigo-duterte\"> used the pandemic as an opportunity to become further militarized.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4126317&GUID=3C8A7899-CADF-4C52-85A3-49E27C60BF93&Options=&Search=\">calling for the suspension of U.S. aid to the Duterte administration\u003c/a> until Lee's case was solved \"and the perpetrators are brought to justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's our duty and responsibility to stop our tax dollars to support Duterte,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with members of the local Filipino American community, Lee also spoke out against the new Anti-Terror Bill in the Philippines, which human rights groups say \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-security/philippines-defends-anti-terror-law-before-us-congress-idUSKBN24J06T\">gives the Duterte administration sweeping new powers\u003c/a> to define terrorism, persecute political opponents and suppress free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Philippines, Lee worked as an advocate with the Cordillera Peoples Alliance and was a journalist with The Northern Dispatch in the Philippines, where he advocated against large-scale mining projects on indigenous land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee began his activism as a student at San Francisco State University before moving to the Philippines in 2010. He\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767453/bay-area-filipinos-stand-up-for-activist-shot-in-the-philippines\"> warned repeatedly of intimidation\u003c/a> by the Armed Forces of the Philippines to family and friends back home in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was shot outside his home in August before being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813954/sf-activist-shot-in-the-philippines-recovering-in-hometown-but-cant-find-affordable-housing\">airlifted back to San Francisco in October\u003c/a>, where he continues his search for affordable housing that is also Americans with Disability Act (ADA) accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lee says the intimidation by the Philippine government continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The social media attacks against me did not stop after being airlifted to safety,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1188992939013427201\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee's supporters say the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the Philippine House and Senate have passed resolutions calling for an independent investigation into Lee's shooting. They also say they've been in communication with the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There haven’t been any updates from any administration – either our government administration or the Philippine administration as to the investigation around the attempted assassination,\" said Sadie Stone, a reverend with Bethany United Methodist Church and a supporter of Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Rep. Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, the first Filipino American elected to the state Legislature, said the Bay Area's show of support for Lee's continued recovery makes him proud of the Filipino American community's commitment to fight against injustice wherever it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can't be deterred, and Brandon reminds us of that,\" Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"In a Thursday press conference, San Francisco native Brandon Lee commits to his activism despite the lack of investigation into a suspected extra-judicial assassination attempt by the Philippines government in 2019, which left him paralyzed from the chest down.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1596841140,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":19,"wordCount":668},"headData":{"title":"'It Is My Duty to Continue': No Investigation a Year After SF Activist Brandon Lee Was Shot in the Philippines | KQED","description":"In a Thursday press conference, San Francisco native Brandon Lee commits to his activism despite the lack of investigation into a suspected extra-judicial assassination attempt by the Philippines government in 2019, which left him paralyzed from the chest down.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11832307 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11832307","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/08/07/it-is-my-duty-to-continue-no-investigation-a-year-after-sf-activist-brandon-lee-was-shot-in-the-philippines/","disqusTitle":"'It Is My Duty to Continue': No Investigation a Year After SF Activist Brandon Lee Was Shot in the Philippines","path":"/news/11832307/it-is-my-duty-to-continue-no-investigation-a-year-after-sf-activist-brandon-lee-was-shot-in-the-philippines","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It's been a year since San Francisco native Brandon Lee was shot in the Philippines in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11771858/calls-mounting-to-bring-home-sf-native-shot-in-the-philippines\">a suspected extrajudicial assassination attempt\u003c/a> by the Philippine government for his activism in defense of indigenous land. Despite repeated calls by family and supporters in the Bay Area and abroad, pleas for an investigation into the shooting have yet to be answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, amid\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/07/21/893019057/why-rights-groups-worry-about-the-philippines-new-anti-terrorism-law\"> international concern over the sweeping authority of a new so-called anti-terrorism law in the Philippines\u003c/a>, Lee, an environmental activist from the Sunset District, says he believes it's his duty to continue to advocate against human rights abuses in the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I am believed to be the first American targeted by President [Rodrigo] Duterte's counter-insurgency plan for defending human rights and promoting indigenous people's rights as a community journalist and environmentalist,\" said Lee at a press conference on Thursday. \"However, I can be considered one of the fortunate ones who have survived, because I could've easily been one of the 30,000 fathers, sons, mothers and children who have been killed brutally, mercilessly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/04/philippines-police-may-have-killed-tens-of-thousands-with-near-impunity-in-drug-war-un\">with no due process whatsoever.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That is why despite my permanent injuries, and physical hardship, I believe it is my duty to continue to lend my voice when and where I can,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Thursday press conference, Lee called for the end to U.S. military and financial aid to the Philippines through the \u003ca href=\"https://humanrightsph.org/\">Philippine Human Rights Act\u003c/a>. In April, the U.S. granted $5.3 million in assistance to the Philippines in its fight against COVID-19, but activists fear the Duterte administration has instead\u003ca href=\"https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/arms-sale-philippines-rodrigo-duterte\"> used the pandemic as an opportunity to become further militarized.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed a resolution \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=4126317&GUID=3C8A7899-CADF-4C52-85A3-49E27C60BF93&Options=&Search=\">calling for the suspension of U.S. aid to the Duterte administration\u003c/a> until Lee's case was solved \"and the perpetrators are brought to justice.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's our duty and responsibility to stop our tax dollars to support Duterte,\" Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Along with members of the local Filipino American community, Lee also spoke out against the new Anti-Terror Bill in the Philippines, which human rights groups say \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-security/philippines-defends-anti-terror-law-before-us-congress-idUSKBN24J06T\">gives the Duterte administration sweeping new powers\u003c/a> to define terrorism, persecute political opponents and suppress free speech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Philippines, Lee worked as an advocate with the Cordillera Peoples Alliance and was a journalist with The Northern Dispatch in the Philippines, where he advocated against large-scale mining projects on indigenous land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee began his activism as a student at San Francisco State University before moving to the Philippines in 2010. He\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767453/bay-area-filipinos-stand-up-for-activist-shot-in-the-philippines\"> warned repeatedly of intimidation\u003c/a> by the Armed Forces of the Philippines to family and friends back home in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was shot outside his home in August before being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813954/sf-activist-shot-in-the-philippines-recovering-in-hometown-but-cant-find-affordable-housing\">airlifted back to San Francisco in October\u003c/a>, where he continues his search for affordable housing that is also Americans with Disability Act (ADA) accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Lee says the intimidation by the Philippine government continues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The social media attacks against me did not stop after being airlifted to safety,\" he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1188992939013427201"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>Lee's supporters say the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the Philippine House and Senate have passed resolutions calling for an independent investigation into Lee's shooting. They also say they've been in communication with the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Kamala Harris.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There haven’t been any updates from any administration – either our government administration or the Philippine administration as to the investigation around the attempted assassination,\" said Sadie Stone, a reverend with Bethany United Methodist Church and a supporter of Lee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Rep. 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Now, Lee is looking for affordable and Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant housing in a city that has gotten more expensive since he left for the Philippines in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After four months in four different hospitals in Baguio, Manila, San Francisco and Santa Clara, Brandon came home to the Sunset District and is living with his family,” said San Francisco District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar. “While very strong in spirit, Brandon is paralyzed from the chest down and is in need of 24-hour care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 6, 2019, Lee was shot outside his home in the Philippines by unknown assailants. Lee and his colleagues repeatedly warned of intimidation by the government and armed forces of the Philippines for their activism around the defense of land and natural resources in indigenous communities in the Ifugao province in northern Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11767453,news_11771858\" label=\"Previous Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee became an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767453/bay-area-filipinos-stand-up-for-activist-shot-in-the-philippines\">activist \u003c/a>while studying at San Francisco State University. There, he joined the League of Filipino Students before moving to the Philippines to work as a paralegal and human rights advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney, who visited Lee in the Philippines in August, said Lee is believed to be the first U.S. citizen targeted in an extra-judicial assassination attempt by the armed forces of the Philippines under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar says an important component of Lee’s continued recovery will be permanent housing for him, his wife and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know here in San Francisco we’re in an extreme housing crisis that’s probably going to get a lot worse with the current health pandemic and growing economic crisis, and we cannot rely on the city’s below market rate lottery system,” Mar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s family has been placed number 5,702 in the city’s below market rate housing lottery, according to Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Lee’s family and supporters filed a case with the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights asking for an investigation into Lee’s shooting. They say they have yet to receive an update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to The Bay's previous coverage of Brandon Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767453/bay-area-filipinos-stand-up-for-activist-shot-in-the-philippines\">here. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>Subscribe to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a> to hear more local, Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\">Stitcher\u003c/a>, NPR One, or via \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\">Alexa\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Brandon Lee, a San Francisco native, remains paralyzed from the chest down and in search of affordable housing after a suspected extrajudicial assassination attempt by the Philippine government for his activism last year.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1588634313,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":483},"headData":{"title":"SF Activist Shot in the Philippines Recovering in Hometown — But Can't Find Affordable Housing | KQED","description":"Brandon Lee, a San Francisco native, remains paralyzed from the chest down and in search of affordable housing after a suspected extrajudicial assassination attempt by the Philippine government for his activism last year.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11813954 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11813954","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2020/04/23/sf-activist-shot-in-the-philippines-recovering-in-hometown-but-cant-find-affordable-housing/","disqusTitle":"SF Activist Shot in the Philippines Recovering in Hometown — But Can't Find Affordable Housing","source":"The Bay","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay","path":"/news/11813954/sf-activist-shot-in-the-philippines-recovering-in-hometown-but-cant-find-affordable-housing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A San Francisco activist shot in the Philippines remains paralyzed from the chest down and in search of affordable housing in his hometown after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101873114/officials-push-for-safe-return-of-san-francisco-activist-shot-in-philippines\">a suspected extrajudicial assassination attempt\u003c/a> by the Philippine government for his activism last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Lee, an environmental activist from the Sunset District, was airlifted home to San Francisco from the Philippines in October after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11771858/calls-mounting-to-bring-home-sf-native-shot-in-the-philippines\">pleas for his security\u003c/a>. Now, Lee is looking for affordable and Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant housing in a city that has gotten more expensive since he left for the Philippines in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After four months in four different hospitals in Baguio, Manila, San Francisco and Santa Clara, Brandon came home to the Sunset District and is living with his family,” said San Francisco District 4 Supervisor Gordon Mar. “While very strong in spirit, Brandon is paralyzed from the chest down and is in need of 24-hour care.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Aug. 6, 2019, Lee was shot outside his home in the Philippines by unknown assailants. Lee and his colleagues repeatedly warned of intimidation by the government and armed forces of the Philippines for their activism around the defense of land and natural resources in indigenous communities in the Ifugao province in northern Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11767453,news_11771858","label":"Previous Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee became an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767453/bay-area-filipinos-stand-up-for-activist-shot-in-the-philippines\">activist \u003c/a>while studying at San Francisco State University. There, he joined the League of Filipino Students before moving to the Philippines to work as a paralegal and human rights advocate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney, who visited Lee in the Philippines in August, said Lee is believed to be the first U.S. citizen targeted in an extra-judicial assassination attempt by the armed forces of the Philippines under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mar says an important component of Lee’s continued recovery will be permanent housing for him, his wife and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know here in San Francisco we’re in an extreme housing crisis that’s probably going to get a lot worse with the current health pandemic and growing economic crisis, and we cannot rely on the city’s below market rate lottery system,” Mar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee’s family has been placed number 5,702 in the city’s below market rate housing lottery, according to Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In September, Lee’s family and supporters filed a case with the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights asking for an investigation into Lee’s shooting. They say they have yet to receive an update.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Listen to The Bay's previous coverage of Brandon Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767453/bay-area-filipinos-stand-up-for-activist-shot-in-the-philippines\">here. \u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cem>Subscribe to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a> to hear more local, Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\">Stitcher\u003c/a>, NPR One, or via \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\">Alexa\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11813954/sf-activist-shot-in-the-philippines-recovering-in-hometown-but-cant-find-affordable-housing","authors":["8654"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_3921","news_26557","news_27412","news_5055"],"featImg":"news_11816174","label":"source_news_11813954"},"news_11784332":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11784332","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11784332","score":null,"sort":[1573865722000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"letter-to-my-california-dreamer-planting-roots-in-the-valley-of-hearts-delight","title":"Letter to My California Dreamer: Planting Roots in the Valley of Heart's Delight","publishDate":1573865722,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Letter to My CA Dreamer | The California Report Magazine | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":26731,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>For our series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from The California Report producer Suzie Racho to her father, Calixto:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Dad,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You never really talked much. Mom was the social butterfly, hosting lively birthday parties and holiday meals. You were always quietly working in the background, cooking or getting the yard ready for guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786832\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-800x1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-800x1140.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-160x228.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-1020x1454.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-842x1200.jpg 842w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho in May 1941, posing at the Hollywood Photo Studio in downtown San Jose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You came to California as part of a wave of immigrants from the Philippines in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/1555-remembering-the-manongs-and-story-of-the-filipino-farm-worker-movement\">1930\u003c/a>s. You picked walnuts and other crops, in the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpl.org/blog/looking-back-canning-valley-hearts-delight\">Valley of Heart’s Delight\u003c/a>”, now known as Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">But just because you were a migrant farm worker didn’t mean you didn’t have style. One of my favorite pictures of you was taken in a downtown San Jose photo studio: you and a friend, in sharp zoot suits with pointy lapels, your shoes shined. I still have your sharkskin suits from the '60s. They were custom-made for your 5’2\" frame. Stature is just one of the things we share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786829\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 292px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-800x1197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-800x1197.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-160x239.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-1020x1526.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-802x1200.jpg 802w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut.jpg 1872w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho (R) and his friend Benny Valmoja (L) in 1942. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Famly)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">After years in the fields, you were one of many Filipinos who volunteered to join the US Army. It was World War II, but at 32,you weren’t exactly a kid. I’ll never know what motivated you to join --was it a chance to show patriotism to your adopted country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You went to basic training at Camp Beale in Yuba County and became a rifleman. The Army assigned you to a segregated unit, the \u003ca href=\"https://history.army.mil/html/topics/apam/filipino_regt/filipino_regt.html\">First Filipino Infantry\u003c/a>. I wonder how it felt to navigate this, going from living in San Jose’s Japantown to fighting the Japanese in the Philippines. You saw combat, earning a Bronze Star. And after serving for four years, you left the Army a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786828\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 286px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-800x1316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-800x1316.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-160x263.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-1020x1678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-729x1200.jpg 729w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho was stationed at Camp Beale in Yuba County in 1942. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You never talked about this period of your life, but I remember as a kid, finding long shell casings in a box of your cuff links and tie tacks. I didn’t ask where they came from. Another thing I took from you was to be strong and silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You went back to work on the farms, but you weren’t just picking -- you were also developing horticultural skills. One of your last jobs was growing roses in one of the big nurseries in the Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">By the time you met Mom and had me and my sister Sandie, you’d been married twice and were in your fifties. Friends and teachers always thought you were my grandpa when you dropped me off at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">But you were my dad, an OG DIYer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786836\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11786836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-1020x1361.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzie Racho and Sandie Slife accepted the Congressional Gold Medal on their father's behalf in April 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Suzie Racho)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">There were trips to the hardware store and the lumber yard. I remember the pink playhouse you built for me and my sister, and the Saturdays you spent giving your friends haircuts in the garage. During \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjbetsuin.com/san-jose-obon/\">Obon\u003c/a>, you’d become a grill master, barbecuing hundreds of pork and chicken skewers behind the grill at the Filipino Community Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You also spent hours watching sports on the weekend, so I did too. Tennis, football, boxing, golf….but especially baseball. Thanks to you, I’m still a die-hard Giants fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">It wasn’t until I began taking Asian-American history classes in college, that I realized how much of your life mirrored what I was studying. Your history in California is Filipino-American History.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11786835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-470x470.jpg 470w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">So it was my privilege, 27 years after you died, to represent you as Filipino vets were finally awarded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101862491/filipino-wwii-veterans-receive-long-awaited-recognition-with-congressional-gold-medal\">Congressional Gold Medal\u003c/a> for service in World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Just like your military service, you never talked about your California Dream. But once you settled in the Bay Area, you never left. And neither have I. So maybe the Dream goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Suzie\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Calixto Racho immigrated from the Philippines in the 1930s. Once he landed in the Bay Area, he never left. 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","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11784332 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11784332","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/11/15/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-planting-roots-in-the-valley-of-hearts-delight/","disqusTitle":"Letter to My California Dreamer: Planting Roots in the Valley of Heart's Delight","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2019/11/TCRPM20191115c.wav","path":"/news/11784332/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-planting-roots-in-the-valley-of-hearts-delight","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>For our series “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/letters-to-my-california-dreamer\">Letter To My California Dreamer\u003c/a>,” we’re asking Californians from all walks of life to \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">write a short letter\u003c/a> to one of the first people in their family who came to the Golden State. The letter should explain:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What was their California Dream?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>What happened to it?\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Is that California Dream still alive for you?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's a letter from The California Report producer Suzie Racho to her father, Calixto:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Dear Dad,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You never really talked much. Mom was the social butterfly, hosting lively birthday parties and holiday meals. You were always quietly working in the background, cooking or getting the yard ready for guests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786832\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 260px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786832\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-800x1140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"260\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-800x1140.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-160x228.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-1020x1454.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut-842x1200.jpg 842w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40209_Black-suit-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho in May 1941, posing at the Hollywood Photo Studio in downtown San Jose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You came to California as part of a wave of immigrants from the Philippines in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npca.org/articles/1555-remembering-the-manongs-and-story-of-the-filipino-farm-worker-movement\">1930\u003c/a>s. You picked walnuts and other crops, in the “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sjpl.org/blog/looking-back-canning-valley-hearts-delight\">Valley of Heart’s Delight\u003c/a>”, now known as Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">But just because you were a migrant farm worker didn’t mean you didn’t have style. One of my favorite pictures of you was taken in a downtown San Jose photo studio: you and a friend, in sharp zoot suits with pointy lapels, your shoes shined. I still have your sharkskin suits from the '60s. They were custom-made for your 5’2\" frame. Stature is just one of the things we share.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786829\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 292px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786829\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-800x1197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-800x1197.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-160x239.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-1020x1526.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut-802x1200.jpg 802w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40211_Benny-and-Alex-qut.jpg 1872w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho (R) and his friend Benny Valmoja (L) in 1942. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Famly)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">After years in the fields, you were one of many Filipinos who volunteered to join the US Army. It was World War II, but at 32,you weren’t exactly a kid. I’ll never know what motivated you to join --was it a chance to show patriotism to your adopted country?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You went to basic training at Camp Beale in Yuba County and became a rifleman. The Army assigned you to a segregated unit, the \u003ca href=\"https://history.army.mil/html/topics/apam/filipino_regt/filipino_regt.html\">First Filipino Infantry\u003c/a>. I wonder how it felt to navigate this, going from living in San Jose’s Japantown to fighting the Japanese in the Philippines. You saw combat, earning a Bronze Star. And after serving for four years, you left the Army a U.S. citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786828\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 286px\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-11786828\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-800x1316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-800x1316.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-160x263.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-1020x1678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut-729x1200.jpg 729w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40210_In-the-army-qut.jpg 1648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calixto Racho was stationed at Camp Beale in Yuba County in 1942. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Racho Family)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You never talked about this period of your life, but I remember as a kid, finding long shell casings in a box of your cuff links and tie tacks. I didn’t ask where they came from. Another thing I took from you was to be strong and silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You went back to work on the farms, but you weren’t just picking -- you were also developing horticultural skills. One of your last jobs was growing roses in one of the big nurseries in the Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">By the time you met Mom and had me and my sister Sandie, you’d been married twice and were in your fifties. Friends and teachers always thought you were my grandpa when you dropped me off at school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">But you were my dad, an OG DIYer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11786836\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11786836\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-160x213.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-1020x1361.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-900x1200.jpg 900w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-1122x1496.jpg 1122w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-840x1120.jpg 840w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-687x916.jpg 687w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-414x552.jpg 414w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut-354x472.jpg 354w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/RS40214_IMG_1677-qut.jpg 1312w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suzie Racho and Sandie Slife accepted the Congressional Gold Medal on their father's behalf in April 2018. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Suzie Racho)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">There were trips to the hardware store and the lumber yard. I remember the pink playhouse you built for me and my sister, and the Saturdays you spent giving your friends haircuts in the garage. During \u003ca href=\"http://www.sjbetsuin.com/san-jose-obon/\">Obon\u003c/a>, you’d become a grill master, barbecuing hundreds of pork and chicken skewers behind the grill at the Filipino Community Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">You also spent hours watching sports on the weekend, so I did too. Tennis, football, boxing, golf….but especially baseball. Thanks to you, I’m still a die-hard Giants fan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">It wasn’t until I began taking Asian-American history classes in college, that I realized how much of your life mirrored what I was studying. Your history in California is Filipino-American History.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg class=\"alignleft wp-image-11786835\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-800x800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1200x1200.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1472x1472.jpg 1472w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-1104x1104.jpg 1104w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-912x912.jpg 912w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-550x550.jpg 550w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal-470x470.jpg 470w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/11/Medal.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">So it was my privilege, 27 years after you died, to represent you as Filipino vets were finally awarded the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101862491/filipino-wwii-veterans-receive-long-awaited-recognition-with-congressional-gold-medal\">Congressional Gold Medal\u003c/a> for service in World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Just like your military service, you never talked about your California Dream. But once you settled in the Bay Area, you never left. And neither have I. So maybe the Dream goes on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Love,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-family: courier\">Suzie\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>We’d love to see your letter to your family’s California Dreamer. Maybe it was a parent, a great-great grandparent or maybe even you were the first in your family to come to California with a dream. \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScVZ3sM0H_4keRP1D28mX4gSSd3IAYjzRgpMZ5xyQhF-5mxvA/viewform\">Fill out the form here\u003c/a> and share your story with us!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11784332/letter-to-my-california-dreamer-planting-roots-in-the-valley-of-hearts-delight","authors":["107"],"programs":["news_26731"],"series":["news_24148"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_5056","news_23499","news_23351","news_5055","news_18541","news_23120"],"featImg":"news_11786906","label":"news_26731"},"news_11771858":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11771858","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11771858","score":null,"sort":[1567591242000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"calls-mounting-to-bring-home-sf-native-shot-in-the-philippines","title":"Local Officials Calling to Bring Home SF Activist Shot in Philippines","publishDate":1567591242,"format":"audio","headTitle":"Local Officials Calling to Bring Home SF Activist Shot in Philippines | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisors Matt Haney and Gordon Mar introduced a resolution Tuesday supporting the immediate evacuation of a San Francisco activist shot in the Philippines to ensure his safety and immediate access to adequate medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Lee, a San Francisco native, remains in critical condition in the Philippines after he was shot four times in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee repeatedly told friends and family of intimidation he received from the Philippine government for his environmental and activist work in the Ifugao province in the Philippines, where he moved in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11767453\" label=\"Previous Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed resolution also urges San Francisco’s federal representatives to start a congressional investigation into the shooting and the consequences of United States’ aid to the Philippine government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Brandon’s experience fits a pattern of harassment, intimidation and violence documented by human rights watchdogs,” said Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney visited Lee in the Philippines in August. He said Lee is believed to be the first U.S. citizen targeted in an extra-judicial assassination attempt by the armed forces of the Philippines under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767453/bay-area-filipinos-stand-up-for-activist-shot-in-the-philippines\">was shot outside his home in the Philippines\u003c/a> by unknown assailants on Aug. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is clear is he was a target of an assassination attempt — there is no doubt about that,” Haney said at a press conference Friday. “For that reason, this should be of the utmost importance and concern to our federal representatives, to the US government, to make sure he can come home safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was working as a paralegal, journalist and environmental and human rights advocate for indigenous communities in the Philippines. He became an activist after joining the student activist group League of Filipino Students at San Francisco State, where he graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local authorities have not identified or arrested the assailant and family members said this leaves Lee in a vulnerable position. Since the attack, Lee suffered eight cardiac arrests. He’s now breathing on his own and can mouth responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are concerned for his safety,” said Louise Lee, Brandon’s mom. “The assailant is still out there, and could come back to finish the job. I’m hoping the U.S. embassy and other U.S. representatives will be able to help us with medically evacuating Brandon and bringing him back home to San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney is calling on more lawmakers to bring awareness to Lee’s situation in the Philippines, and to help in any way they can to provide medical care and protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is shameful that a U.S. citizen is out there in this situation currently under threat, and not being fully protected by the Philippines government or let alone adequately by the American government,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office said they were aware of Lee’s situation in the Philippines and that they have been in contact with Lee’s family, the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Department of State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a> to hear more local, Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\">Stitcher\u003c/a>, NPR One, or via \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\">Alexa\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Brandon Lee, a San Francisco native, remains in critical condition in the Philippines after he was shot four times last month. His family and friends, along with San Francisco supervisors Matt Haney and Gordon Mar are calling on lawmakers to help bring Lee back to the U.S.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700694917,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":569},"headData":{"title":"Local Officials Calling to Bring Home SF Activist Shot in Philippines | KQED","description":"Brandon Lee, a San Francisco native, remains in critical condition in the Philippines after he was shot four times last month. His family and friends, along with San Francisco supervisors Matt Haney and Gordon Mar are calling on lawmakers to help bring Lee back to the U.S.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"The Bay","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thebay/2019/09/BrandonLeeFolo1Mixdown2.mp3","audioTrackLength":948,"path":"/news/11771858/calls-mounting-to-bring-home-sf-native-shot-in-the-philippines","audioDuration":948000,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Supervisors Matt Haney and Gordon Mar introduced a resolution Tuesday supporting the immediate evacuation of a San Francisco activist shot in the Philippines to ensure his safety and immediate access to adequate medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brandon Lee, a San Francisco native, remains in critical condition in the Philippines after he was shot four times in August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee repeatedly told friends and family of intimidation he received from the Philippine government for his environmental and activist work in the Ifugao province in the Philippines, where he moved in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11767453","label":"Previous Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed resolution also urges San Francisco’s federal representatives to start a congressional investigation into the shooting and the consequences of United States’ aid to the Philippine government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Brandon’s experience fits a pattern of harassment, intimidation and violence documented by human rights watchdogs,” said Mar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney visited Lee in the Philippines in August. He said Lee is believed to be the first U.S. citizen targeted in an extra-judicial assassination attempt by the armed forces of the Philippines under the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. Lee \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11767453/bay-area-filipinos-stand-up-for-activist-shot-in-the-philippines\">was shot outside his home in the Philippines\u003c/a> by unknown assailants on Aug. 6.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is clear is he was a target of an assassination attempt — there is no doubt about that,” Haney said at a press conference Friday. “For that reason, this should be of the utmost importance and concern to our federal representatives, to the US government, to make sure he can come home safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lee was working as a paralegal, journalist and environmental and human rights advocate for indigenous communities in the Philippines. He became an activist after joining the student activist group League of Filipino Students at San Francisco State, where he graduated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local authorities have not identified or arrested the assailant and family members said this leaves Lee in a vulnerable position. Since the attack, Lee suffered eight cardiac arrests. He’s now breathing on his own and can mouth responses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are concerned for his safety,” said Louise Lee, Brandon’s mom. “The assailant is still out there, and could come back to finish the job. I’m hoping the U.S. embassy and other U.S. representatives will be able to help us with medically evacuating Brandon and bringing him back home to San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney is calling on more lawmakers to bring awareness to Lee’s situation in the Philippines, and to help in any way they can to provide medical care and protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is shameful that a U.S. citizen is out there in this situation currently under threat, and not being fully protected by the Philippines government or let alone adequately by the American government,” Haney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A representative of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office said they were aware of Lee’s situation in the Philippines and that they have been in contact with Lee’s family, the U.S. Embassy and the U.S. Department of State.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Subscribe to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay\">The Bay\u003c/a> to hear more local, Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on \u003ca href=\"https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bay/id1350043452?mt=2\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/4BIKBKIujizLHlIlBNaAqQ\">Spotify\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/kqed/the-bay\">Stitcher\u003c/a>, NPR One, or via \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/KQED-The-Bay-Flash-Briefing/dp/B07H6YYV23\">Alexa\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11771858/calls-mounting-to-bring-home-sf-native-shot-in-the-philippines","authors":["8654"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_26557","news_5055","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11771862","label":"source_news_11771858"},"news_11768293":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11768293","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11768293","score":null,"sort":[1566158464000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"my-grandfather-a-killer","title":"My Grandfather, A Killer","publishDate":1566158464,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>On rare occasions, Dad and I would get together for lunch. It was 2014, and I had just started a job at NPR. Dad was retired and lived 60 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From what I remember, we ate dim sum, which meant driving through the heart of downtown Los Angeles, the massive skyscrapers glistening in the afternoon sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was quiet in the car. I was thinking about how Mom and Dad used to make this commute to LA every day for work. Two hours in the morning, two hours at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11767453\" label=\"Bay Area Activist Shot in PI\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad interrupted my thoughts, pointing to a building on the side of the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did you know that my dad killed somebody in that place?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wait, what?\" I responded, almost missing the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never met my grandfather, Lolo Vicente, but I'd heard stories about him. On our living room wall, there's a picture of him. He was handsome. Dad said he was strict, but he never talked about him coming to America, much less that he killed someone. When I asked Dad why it had taken him so long to tell me, he said it's because I never asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A million thoughts raced through my head. Lolo was in America? Why was Lolo in America? Who did he kill? Did he go to prison?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the main question tugging at me was what this all meant for the story of my family's history in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768295\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0087_custom-c0585b545430b16710a9af0cf79faf63be15644e-e1566155580832.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0087_custom-c0585b545430b16710a9af0cf79faf63be15644e-e1566155580832.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1222\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author's father, Manolo Guerra, stands for a portrait at his home in Moreno Valley, Calif., on Aug. 7. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The murder had suddenly shattered my view of the quintessential immigrant narrative — the story my parents embodied. They both came to the United States from the Philippines in the 1980s looking for a better life. Dad became a citizen; Mom, a green card holder. They worked hard, bought a house in the suburbs and raised three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandfather had taken a darker path. The fact that this violence was a part of my American story scared me. I hated how it might feed into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/30/upshot/crime-immigration-myth.html?module=inline\">false\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/upshot/illegal-immigration-crime-rates-research.html\">narrative\u003c/a> that immigrants drive up crime rates. The story also enticed me. I needed to find answers to my questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the story of my Lolo — which means \"grandfather\" in Tagalog, a language native to the Philippines. The reason I'm here is because of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768296\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0125_custom-c9645c2e7b06ad2ca7ca309cb317dc0510e8d865-e1566155627245.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0125_custom-c9645c2e7b06ad2ca7ca309cb317dc0510e8d865-e1566155627245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1332\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trophies and ribbons won by the Guerra sisters are on display in the garage of their father, Manolo Guerra. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>America's \"Little Brown Brothers\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first found Lolo's mug shot, I thought he looked handsome. He was only 24, with soft features and slick black hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had come to America six years earlier, in 1926. He grew up poor in a small province in the Philippines and was part of a mass migration that, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/philippines-culture-migration\">by one estimate\u003c/a>, brought 150,000 Filipinos to America between 1907 and 1930. These were mostly single young men who boarded steamships to travel thousands of miles from the Philippines to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, it was relatively easy to immigrate to the U.S. from the Philippines, which in the 1930s was still \u003ca href=\"https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/APA/Historical-Essays/Exclusion-and-Empire/The-Philippines/\">a U.S. territory\u003c/a>. The agricultural sector needed cheap labor, and Filipinos, who were considered noncitizen nationals, fulfilled that role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768297\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0006_custom-1882b5ad05ee6114c851da325a2def1eb5d017ee-e1566155844678.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0006_custom-1882b5ad05ee6114c851da325a2def1eb5d017ee-e1566155844678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manolo Guerra points himself out in an old family portrait. He's standing in the photo with his father, Vicente Guerra, his mother, Isabel Guerra, and his older brother Greg. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0103_custom-628870066d5a5490411611fdb6372e0377ff79a8-e1566155896220.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0103_custom-628870066d5a5490411611fdb6372e0377ff79a8-e1566155896220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1332\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family photo at the home of Manolo Guerra. The author, Denise Guerra, appears on the far left alongside her sister, mother, father, sister and brother-in-law. Her two nieces appear seated in the front row. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While most of these Filipinos worked in farming, men like my grandfather ended up in cities as low-wage domestic workers. In Los Angeles, he became a \"houseboy.\" Family lore said he cleaned house for actor George Raft, who appeared in the original \u003cem>Scarface\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For newly arrived immigrants like Lolo, life in America was hard, and the reception was not always warm. Filipino men were known as America's \"little brown brothers,\" a phrase coined by William Howard Taft, who before winning the White House in the 1908 election, served as the first American governor-general of the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"perspectives_201601138926\" label=\"Perspectives: Filipino Pride\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White America's view could be summed up in a 1929 \u003cem>Los Angeles Times \u003c/em>op-ed titled \"The Filipino Invasion.\" The author describes Filipinos as \"good boys, most of them trained on battleships or as houseboys to neatness, cleanliness and quiet courtesy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can only imagine how emasculating this must have felt for Lolo and other young Filipino men. But you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at photographs of them from the time. Outside of work they wore fedoras, \u003ca href=\"https://www.esquiremag.ph/style/fashion/filipino-mens-fashion-a2289-20190401-lfrm6\">pressed zoot suits\u003c/a> and shiny wingtip shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Ocampo, a sociologist at California State Polytechnic University and author of the book \u003cem>The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race, \u003c/em>said dressing like that offered a form of mental self-preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think part of the reason they did that is because having traveled 7,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, being able to present themselves in that way gave them some sort of dignity,\" Ocampo said. \"That the journey was worth it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768306\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0320_custom-175badc4bdaff2881b5f935ef6b6505fd46bb2fd-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0320_custom-175badc4bdaff2881b5f935ef6b6505fd46bb2fd-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0320_custom-175badc4bdaff2881b5f935ef6b6505fd46bb2fd-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0320_custom-175badc4bdaff2881b5f935ef6b6505fd46bb2fd-s800-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guerra sits at his home. In the 1980s, Guerra immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines in search of a better life. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, it wasn't strictly about self-preservation, said Ocampo. They also did it to attract women, especially at the local taxi-dance halls, where men could hire women to dance with them. The dance halls gave immigrants an outlet to socialize with one another and spend some of their hard-earned money — typically 10 cents per dance — in hopes of finding some companionship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women were usually white, and given racist attitudes and miscegenation laws, that dynamic would eventually spark violence against the Filipino community by white men enraged over the \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=_yD8ND6gMUsC&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q&f=false\">influx of migrant laborers in the area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most notorious incident happened in Watsonville, an agricultural community in Northern California. In 1930, a mob of about 500 white men and youth opened fire at a dance hall popular with the local Filipino community where white women were being employed. Over five days, roaming mobs assaulted Filipinos with pistols, clubs and whips. They dragged Filipinos from their homes and beat them. Filipinos were thrown off bridges. One man, Fermin Tobera, 22, was shot to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was out to run the Filipinos out of the country,\" one participant told the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em>. \"We're going to get rid of them, that's what.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Murder \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, a woman would again be at the center of violence involving Filipinos. This time, it involved my Lolo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, no one in my family can say for certain what drove my grandfather to murder. But according to an Associated Press report dated Sept. 23, 1931, it all had to do with \"an American girl.\" The headline of the story read, \"Oriental Killed, One Shot in Love Feud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to my dad, Lolo was in a restaurant bathroom when two men cornered him and slit his neck, leaving Lolo bleeding and facedown on a toilet. Someone found Lolo and was able to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad doesn't know what prompted the attack, but he remembers the scar that it left on the back of Lolo's neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his recovery, Lolo went looking for his attackers, and one day, while cruising the streets of a busy downtown corridor, Lolo spotted two men leaving a theater. He told a friend to get the car ready. Lolo had a gun and was set on revenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting took place close to a popular dance hall where Filipinos hung out, near city hall. His victims were John Lopez, shot in the leg, and Joseph Retotar, a Filipino, who died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records for the two men are hard to come by. Based on what I could find, Retotar was about the same age as Lolo. And that love feud? While the article suggests it was over an American, no one in the family can say for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years I agonized. If only I had her name or the details of the others involved, then just maybe I could figure out what really happened. It had to be in the case file. I went to the Los Angeles County Hall of Records to look for it, but when the archivist took the decades-old microfilm out of its box, it fell apart. This mystery woman was now a ghost on decrepit microfilm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768307\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0455_custom-84a3de002f71d533d87bdc201dafbf8875775473-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0455_custom-84a3de002f71d533d87bdc201dafbf8875775473-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0455_custom-84a3de002f71d533d87bdc201dafbf8875775473-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0455_custom-84a3de002f71d533d87bdc201dafbf8875775473-s800-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guerra and wife's house in the suburban community of Moreno Valley. The couple bought the home after immigrating to the U.S. and raised three children there. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Return to the Philippines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolo was caught, tried by a jury and found guilty of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to five years to life at San Quentin State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was out in seven years. Dad said Lolo talked about marking his cell with chalk every year he spent there. When he was released, he took his hand, swiped the chalk marks off the wall and cried aloud, \"Goodbye!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear why Lolo was released from prison so early, but a handwritten note in his prison records offers a clue. It appears to read, \"repat Paroled 5/5/39.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Repat\" is a likely reference to the government's efforts to repatriate Filipinos under a 1935 law signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to anger among white workers about Filipino men taking U.S. jobs. The measure came a year after the Tydings-McDuffie Act — a law that set the Philippines on the path to independence but that also reclassified Filipinos already in the U.S. as \"aliens.\" Taken together, the two laws were blamed for separating Filipino families, given that Tydings-McDuffie capped Filipino immigration at 50 people per year, making it near impossible for anyone who was repatriated to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Lolo was heading back to the Philippines in 1939, World War II was raging in Europe. In the Pacific, Japanese forces had taken over several Chinese cities. The U.S. was on guard — its interests in the Philippines could be next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolo's niece, my Tita Letty Francisco, remembers that the war may be the reason for Lolo's parole. Back then, it was common for prisoners to be recruited to fight the Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Within hours, it invaded the Philippines. Lolo became a second lieutenant in the guerrilla army fighting the Japanese alongside U.S. forces. He even got a new nickname. Instead of Vicente Guerra, they called him Vicente Bakal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768304\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768304\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicente Guerra is pictured during his time as a second lieutenant in the guerilla force fighting the Japanese in World War II. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Denise Guerra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Bakal is iron,\" said Tita Letty. She said he could be loving toward his family, but when it came to war, Lolo showed no remorse for killing the Japanese. She remembers Lolo's fury after the Japanese bombed the home he shared with the woman he ended up marrying in the Philippines, Lola Isabel. He'd even brag about how many lives he took, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Dad, there was at least one death that troubled Lolo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the time he was tasked with killing a Filipina who had been accused of working as an informant for the Japanese. She was labeled a \"Makapili,\" the name Filipinos gave those who aided the Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the war, the Japanese would take informants, place bags over their heads, cut two holes for their eyes and ask them to identify Filipinos. Once identified, the Japanese would shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolo's secret mission to kill this woman meant he couldn't use a gun, because it would make noise, so he and others used a piece of wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"' They keep hitting her and hitting her, and she won't die,'\" Dad remembered Lolo telling him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what they did, they just digged a hole. But when they put her there, she's still alive. So they keep hitting her,\" Dad said, his tone solemn like I imagine Lolo's must have been when recounting the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Lolo asked his boss to transfer him to another assignment. He couldn't take it anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I think back on this story, it makes me angry. How could he have killed someone so brutally? Even if it was in the service of his country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad takes me back to reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is war,\" he said. \"What did you expect?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Enforcer \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was about five years after our car ride that Dad and I went to where the murder took place in downtown LA. The street corner looks like a restored loft with some shops. It's loud, bustling. Traffic and construction noise fills the air. In one direction, I see homeless men. In another, a man on a dockless scooter riding by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's here, almost a century ago, that Lolo's life in America took a turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad's silent, taking it all in. My thoughts are elsewhere, and I wonder how Lolo's environment shaped his actions. Did life in America encourage the worst in him? Turn him more angry? More violent? What if he had never come to the U.S.? Would he have avoided all the bloodshed? Or was it all inevitable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think about another influence in Lolo's life, Ted Lewin. He was an American who built one of the biggest gaming operations in Manila. In a 1959 profile, \u003ca href=\"http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865128,00.html\">\u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine described\u003c/a> Lewin, saying he had \"a taste for dark shirts, penthouses, air-conditioned Cadillacs and shadowy wheelings and dealings. In and out of Manila, in the past two decades, he has turned many a fast peso.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"filipino-americans\" label=\"Related Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolo worked for Lewin as an enforcer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When they see something or they found out something in the casino that you are cheating, they would beat the hell out of them,\" said Dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad said Lolo would tell him stories about taking a hammer and smashing each finger of a cheater's hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolo became a top boss for Lewin. He was feared and respected. When Lewin was forced out of the trade by the Philippine government, Lolo took his experience and used it to establish his own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a fleet of taxis and operated distilleries. Ever the hustler, he at one point took a job at customs, where he accepted bribes for letting folks smuggle goods into the islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This allowed him to give his kids the opportunity to attend college in the Philippines, drive nice cars and establish political and business connections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad used that to build his own business selling electronics in the Philippines. It did well at first but then fell into bankruptcy. He looked at America and saw a second chance. And thanks in part to Lolo's war service, Dad was eventually able to gain citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's retired now, after 40 years in manufacturing. He and my mom worked all the time, and because of that, my family enjoyed full bellies and college educations. The quintessential American Dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My family, my country \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Dad why his life in America was so different from Lolo's. He said it's because each generation will be better off than the one before it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Remember during [his] time, they are all illiterate. They didn't go to high school,\" Dad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You go to another country, especially an industrialized country like America, most of them turned out to be drivers, busboys or work as a maid because they don't have schooling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad never went back to the Philippines, even for Lolo's funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when I die, I already bought our family plot, because most people when they die, they go home, but this is my home, so I will just stay here,\" Dad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My parents are already dead. My only brother is dead. So there's no more thing for me to go to the Philippines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768305\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0155_custom-fb92a686c357b8bd1b2269c5e9a242486348174e-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0155_custom-fb92a686c357b8bd1b2269c5e9a242486348174e-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0155_custom-fb92a686c357b8bd1b2269c5e9a242486348174e-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0155_custom-fb92a686c357b8bd1b2269c5e9a242486348174e-s800-c85-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guerra says a prayer in the chapel he constructed in his garage. He has never returned to the Philippines since coming to America in the 1980s. \"My parents are already dead. My only brother is dead. So there's no more thing for me to go to the Philippines,\" he said. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I think about Lolo's history in America — the murder, the war, his thuggery — my biggest question is still whether he was a monster. Or would he have made different choices if America had been kinder? If you exist in a land where you're constantly seen as a villain, do you inevitably become one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Lolo's violence, Dad believes he was a good father, a good friend. Tita Letty remembers him as kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not so sure. But the blood he shed is part of my family's story. It's part of America's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">https://www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=My+Grandfather%2C+A+Killer+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Denise Guerra, a second-generation Filipino American, never met her grandfather. When she finally learned a long-held family secret, it shattered her view of the quintessential immigrant narrative.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1566158464,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":82,"wordCount":2919},"headData":{"title":"My Grandfather, A Killer | KQED","description":"Denise Guerra, a second-generation Filipino American, never met her grandfather. When she finally learned a long-held family secret, it shattered her view of the quintessential immigrant narrative.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11768293 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11768293","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2019/08/18/my-grandfather-a-killer/","disqusTitle":"My Grandfather, A Killer","source":"NPR","sourceUrl":"https://www.npr.org","nprByline":"\u003ca href= \"https://www.npr.org/people/716309801/denise-guerra\"> Denise Guerra \u003ca/>","nprImageAgency":"California State Archives","path":"/news/11768293/my-grandfather-a-killer","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On rare occasions, Dad and I would get together for lunch. It was 2014, and I had just started a job at NPR. Dad was retired and lived 60 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From what I remember, we ate dim sum, which meant driving through the heart of downtown Los Angeles, the massive skyscrapers glistening in the afternoon sun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was quiet in the car. I was thinking about how Mom and Dad used to make this commute to LA every day for work. Two hours in the morning, two hours at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11767453","label":"Bay Area Activist Shot in PI "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad interrupted my thoughts, pointing to a building on the side of the freeway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Did you know that my dad killed somebody in that place?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Wait, what?\" I responded, almost missing the moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I never met my grandfather, Lolo Vicente, but I'd heard stories about him. On our living room wall, there's a picture of him. He was handsome. Dad said he was strict, but he never talked about him coming to America, much less that he killed someone. When I asked Dad why it had taken him so long to tell me, he said it's because I never asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A million thoughts raced through my head. Lolo was in America? Why was Lolo in America? Who did he kill? Did he go to prison?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the main question tugging at me was what this all meant for the story of my family's history in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768295\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0087_custom-c0585b545430b16710a9af0cf79faf63be15644e-e1566155580832.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768295\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0087_custom-c0585b545430b16710a9af0cf79faf63be15644e-e1566155580832.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1222\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author's father, Manolo Guerra, stands for a portrait at his home in Moreno Valley, Calif., on Aug. 7. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The murder had suddenly shattered my view of the quintessential immigrant narrative — the story my parents embodied. They both came to the United States from the Philippines in the 1980s looking for a better life. Dad became a citizen; Mom, a green card holder. They worked hard, bought a house in the suburbs and raised three children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My grandfather had taken a darker path. The fact that this violence was a part of my American story scared me. I hated how it might feed into the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/30/upshot/crime-immigration-myth.html?module=inline\">false\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/13/upshot/illegal-immigration-crime-rates-research.html\">narrative\u003c/a> that immigrants drive up crime rates. The story also enticed me. I needed to find answers to my questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the story of my Lolo — which means \"grandfather\" in Tagalog, a language native to the Philippines. The reason I'm here is because of him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768296\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0125_custom-c9645c2e7b06ad2ca7ca309cb317dc0510e8d865-e1566155627245.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768296\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0125_custom-c9645c2e7b06ad2ca7ca309cb317dc0510e8d865-e1566155627245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1332\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trophies and ribbons won by the Guerra sisters are on display in the garage of their father, Manolo Guerra. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>America's \"Little Brown Brothers\" \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I first found Lolo's mug shot, I thought he looked handsome. He was only 24, with soft features and slick black hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had come to America six years earlier, in 1926. He grew up poor in a small province in the Philippines and was part of a mass migration that, \u003ca href=\"https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/philippines-culture-migration\">by one estimate\u003c/a>, brought 150,000 Filipinos to America between 1907 and 1930. These were mostly single young men who boarded steamships to travel thousands of miles from the Philippines to the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, it was relatively easy to immigrate to the U.S. from the Philippines, which in the 1930s was still \u003ca href=\"https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/APA/Historical-Essays/Exclusion-and-Empire/The-Philippines/\">a U.S. territory\u003c/a>. The agricultural sector needed cheap labor, and Filipinos, who were considered noncitizen nationals, fulfilled that role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768297\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0006_custom-1882b5ad05ee6114c851da325a2def1eb5d017ee-e1566155844678.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768297\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0006_custom-1882b5ad05ee6114c851da325a2def1eb5d017ee-e1566155844678.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manolo Guerra points himself out in an old family portrait. He's standing in the photo with his father, Vicente Guerra, his mother, Isabel Guerra, and his older brother Greg. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768298\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0103_custom-628870066d5a5490411611fdb6372e0377ff79a8-e1566155896220.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768298\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0103_custom-628870066d5a5490411611fdb6372e0377ff79a8-e1566155896220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1332\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family photo at the home of Manolo Guerra. The author, Denise Guerra, appears on the far left alongside her sister, mother, father, sister and brother-in-law. Her two nieces appear seated in the front row. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While most of these Filipinos worked in farming, men like my grandfather ended up in cities as low-wage domestic workers. In Los Angeles, he became a \"houseboy.\" Family lore said he cleaned house for actor George Raft, who appeared in the original \u003cem>Scarface\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For newly arrived immigrants like Lolo, life in America was hard, and the reception was not always warm. Filipino men were known as America's \"little brown brothers,\" a phrase coined by William Howard Taft, who before winning the White House in the 1908 election, served as the first American governor-general of the Philippines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"perspectives_201601138926","label":"Perspectives: Filipino Pride "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White America's view could be summed up in a 1929 \u003cem>Los Angeles Times \u003c/em>op-ed titled \"The Filipino Invasion.\" The author describes Filipinos as \"good boys, most of them trained on battleships or as houseboys to neatness, cleanliness and quiet courtesy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I can only imagine how emasculating this must have felt for Lolo and other young Filipino men. But you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at photographs of them from the time. Outside of work they wore fedoras, \u003ca href=\"https://www.esquiremag.ph/style/fashion/filipino-mens-fashion-a2289-20190401-lfrm6\">pressed zoot suits\u003c/a> and shiny wingtip shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Ocampo, a sociologist at California State Polytechnic University and author of the book \u003cem>The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race, \u003c/em>said dressing like that offered a form of mental self-preservation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think part of the reason they did that is because having traveled 7,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean, being able to present themselves in that way gave them some sort of dignity,\" Ocampo said. \"That the journey was worth it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768306\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0320_custom-175badc4bdaff2881b5f935ef6b6505fd46bb2fd-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0320_custom-175badc4bdaff2881b5f935ef6b6505fd46bb2fd-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0320_custom-175badc4bdaff2881b5f935ef6b6505fd46bb2fd-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0320_custom-175badc4bdaff2881b5f935ef6b6505fd46bb2fd-s800-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guerra sits at his home. In the 1980s, Guerra immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines in search of a better life. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Of course, it wasn't strictly about self-preservation, said Ocampo. They also did it to attract women, especially at the local taxi-dance halls, where men could hire women to dance with them. The dance halls gave immigrants an outlet to socialize with one another and spend some of their hard-earned money — typically 10 cents per dance — in hopes of finding some companionship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The women were usually white, and given racist attitudes and miscegenation laws, that dynamic would eventually spark violence against the Filipino community by white men enraged over the \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books?id=_yD8ND6gMUsC&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q&f=false\">influx of migrant laborers in the area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most notorious incident happened in Watsonville, an agricultural community in Northern California. In 1930, a mob of about 500 white men and youth opened fire at a dance hall popular with the local Filipino community where white women were being employed. Over five days, roaming mobs assaulted Filipinos with pistols, clubs and whips. They dragged Filipinos from their homes and beat them. Filipinos were thrown off bridges. One man, Fermin Tobera, 22, was shot to death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was out to run the Filipinos out of the country,\" one participant told the \u003cem>Oakland Tribune\u003c/em>. \"We're going to get rid of them, that's what.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Murder \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next year, a woman would again be at the center of violence involving Filipinos. This time, it involved my Lolo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, no one in my family can say for certain what drove my grandfather to murder. But according to an Associated Press report dated Sept. 23, 1931, it all had to do with \"an American girl.\" The headline of the story read, \"Oriental Killed, One Shot in Love Feud.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to my dad, Lolo was in a restaurant bathroom when two men cornered him and slit his neck, leaving Lolo bleeding and facedown on a toilet. Someone found Lolo and was able to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad doesn't know what prompted the attack, but he remembers the scar that it left on the back of Lolo's neck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his recovery, Lolo went looking for his attackers, and one day, while cruising the streets of a busy downtown corridor, Lolo spotted two men leaving a theater. He told a friend to get the car ready. Lolo had a gun and was set on revenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The shooting took place close to a popular dance hall where Filipinos hung out, near city hall. His victims were John Lopez, shot in the leg, and Joseph Retotar, a Filipino, who died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records for the two men are hard to come by. Based on what I could find, Retotar was about the same age as Lolo. And that love feud? While the article suggests it was over an American, no one in the family can say for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years I agonized. If only I had her name or the details of the others involved, then just maybe I could figure out what really happened. It had to be in the case file. I went to the Los Angeles County Hall of Records to look for it, but when the archivist took the decades-old microfilm out of its box, it fell apart. This mystery woman was now a ghost on decrepit microfilm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768307\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0455_custom-84a3de002f71d533d87bdc201dafbf8875775473-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0455_custom-84a3de002f71d533d87bdc201dafbf8875775473-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0455_custom-84a3de002f71d533d87bdc201dafbf8875775473-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0455_custom-84a3de002f71d533d87bdc201dafbf8875775473-s800-c85-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guerra and wife's house in the suburban community of Moreno Valley. The couple bought the home after immigrating to the U.S. and raised three children there. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Return to the Philippines\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolo was caught, tried by a jury and found guilty of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to five years to life at San Quentin State Prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was out in seven years. Dad said Lolo talked about marking his cell with chalk every year he spent there. When he was released, he took his hand, swiped the chalk marks off the wall and cried aloud, \"Goodbye!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's unclear why Lolo was released from prison so early, but a handwritten note in his prison records offers a clue. It appears to read, \"repat Paroled 5/5/39.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Repat\" is a likely reference to the government's efforts to repatriate Filipinos under a 1935 law signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to anger among white workers about Filipino men taking U.S. jobs. The measure came a year after the Tydings-McDuffie Act — a law that set the Philippines on the path to independence but that also reclassified Filipinos already in the U.S. as \"aliens.\" Taken together, the two laws were blamed for separating Filipino families, given that Tydings-McDuffie capped Filipino immigration at 50 people per year, making it near impossible for anyone who was repatriated to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Lolo was heading back to the Philippines in 1939, World War II was raging in Europe. In the Pacific, Japanese forces had taken over several Chinese cities. The U.S. was on guard — its interests in the Philippines could be next.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolo's niece, my Tita Letty Francisco, remembers that the war may be the reason for Lolo's parole. Back then, it was common for prisoners to be recruited to fight the Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Within hours, it invaded the Philippines. Lolo became a second lieutenant in the guerrilla army fighting the Japanese alongside U.S. forces. He even got a new nickname. Instead of Vicente Guerra, they called him Vicente Bakal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768304\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768304\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/img_2491-copy-84559d54d634a915727b2c66a1b2c6f8f924956c-s800-c85-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vicente Guerra is pictured during his time as a second lieutenant in the guerilla force fighting the Japanese in World War II. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Denise Guerra)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"Bakal is iron,\" said Tita Letty. She said he could be loving toward his family, but when it came to war, Lolo showed no remorse for killing the Japanese. She remembers Lolo's fury after the Japanese bombed the home he shared with the woman he ended up marrying in the Philippines, Lola Isabel. He'd even brag about how many lives he took, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to Dad, there was at least one death that troubled Lolo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the time he was tasked with killing a Filipina who had been accused of working as an informant for the Japanese. She was labeled a \"Makapili,\" the name Filipinos gave those who aided the Japanese.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the war, the Japanese would take informants, place bags over their heads, cut two holes for their eyes and ask them to identify Filipinos. Once identified, the Japanese would shoot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolo's secret mission to kill this woman meant he couldn't use a gun, because it would make noise, so he and others used a piece of wood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"' They keep hitting her and hitting her, and she won't die,'\" Dad remembered Lolo telling him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So what they did, they just digged a hole. But when they put her there, she's still alive. So they keep hitting her,\" Dad said, his tone solemn like I imagine Lolo's must have been when recounting the story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Lolo asked his boss to transfer him to another assignment. He couldn't take it anymore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I think back on this story, it makes me angry. How could he have killed someone so brutally? Even if it was in the service of his country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad takes me back to reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is war,\" he said. \"What did you expect?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Enforcer \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was about five years after our car ride that Dad and I went to where the murder took place in downtown LA. The street corner looks like a restored loft with some shops. It's loud, bustling. Traffic and construction noise fills the air. In one direction, I see homeless men. In another, a man on a dockless scooter riding by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's here, almost a century ago, that Lolo's life in America took a turn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad's silent, taking it all in. My thoughts are elsewhere, and I wonder how Lolo's environment shaped his actions. Did life in America encourage the worst in him? Turn him more angry? More violent? What if he had never come to the U.S.? Would he have avoided all the bloodshed? Or was it all inevitable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I think about another influence in Lolo's life, Ted Lewin. He was an American who built one of the biggest gaming operations in Manila. In a 1959 profile, \u003ca href=\"http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,865128,00.html\">\u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine described\u003c/a> Lewin, saying he had \"a taste for dark shirts, penthouses, air-conditioned Cadillacs and shadowy wheelings and dealings. In and out of Manila, in the past two decades, he has turned many a fast peso.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"filipino-americans","label":"Related Coverage "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolo worked for Lewin as an enforcer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When they see something or they found out something in the casino that you are cheating, they would beat the hell out of them,\" said Dad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad said Lolo would tell him stories about taking a hammer and smashing each finger of a cheater's hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lolo became a top boss for Lewin. He was feared and respected. When Lewin was forced out of the trade by the Philippine government, Lolo took his experience and used it to establish his own businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a fleet of taxis and operated distilleries. Ever the hustler, he at one point took a job at customs, where he accepted bribes for letting folks smuggle goods into the islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This allowed him to give his kids the opportunity to attend college in the Philippines, drive nice cars and establish political and business connections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad used that to build his own business selling electronics in the Philippines. It did well at first but then fell into bankruptcy. He looked at America and saw a second chance. And thanks in part to Lolo's war service, Dad was eventually able to gain citizenship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He's retired now, after 40 years in manufacturing. He and my mom worked all the time, and because of that, my family enjoyed full bellies and college educations. The quintessential American Dream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>My family, my country \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I asked Dad why his life in America was so different from Lolo's. He said it's because each generation will be better off than the one before it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Remember during [his] time, they are all illiterate. They didn't go to high school,\" Dad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You go to another country, especially an industrialized country like America, most of them turned out to be drivers, busboys or work as a maid because they don't have schooling.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dad never went back to the Philippines, even for Lolo's funeral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Even when I die, I already bought our family plot, because most people when they die, they go home, but this is my home, so I will just stay here,\" Dad said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My parents are already dead. My only brother is dead. So there's no more thing for me to go to the Philippines.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768305\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0155_custom-fb92a686c357b8bd1b2269c5e9a242486348174e-s800-c85.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11768305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0155_custom-fb92a686c357b8bd1b2269c5e9a242486348174e-s800-c85.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0155_custom-fb92a686c357b8bd1b2269c5e9a242486348174e-s800-c85.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/npr_kat_kaye_mg_0155_custom-fb92a686c357b8bd1b2269c5e9a242486348174e-s800-c85-160x110.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guerra says a prayer in the chapel he constructed in his garage. He has never returned to the Philippines since coming to America in the 1980s. \"My parents are already dead. My only brother is dead. So there's no more thing for me to go to the Philippines,\" he said. \u003ccite>(Kat Kaye/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When I think about Lolo's history in America — the murder, the war, his thuggery — my biggest question is still whether he was a monster. Or would he have made different choices if America had been kinder? If you exist in a land where you're constantly seen as a villain, do you inevitably become one?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Lolo's violence, Dad believes he was a good father, a good friend. Tita Letty remembers him as kind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not so sure. But the blood he shed is part of my family's story. It's part of America's.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\">https://www.npr.org\u003c/a>.\u003cimg src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=My+Grandfather%2C+A+Killer+&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11768293/my-grandfather-a-killer","authors":["byline_news_11768293"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_6188","news_8"],"tags":["news_20855","news_5056","news_4","news_5055"],"affiliates":["news_253"],"featImg":"news_11768294","label":"source_news_11768293"},"news_11681398":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11681398","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11681398","score":null,"sort":[1532129458000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"healing-from-a-family-separation-four-decades-later","title":"Healing From a Family Separation, Four Decades Later","publishDate":1532129458,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>Many Californians have reacted to the separation of families at the border with outrage and sadness; with protests, donations and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-co-leads-lawsuit-against-trump-administrations-child\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the federal government. But for some, like Glady Lee, the story feels especially personal, and familiar.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Glady was a toddler when her parents left her behind in the Philippines, seeking better jobs in California. That was four decades ago, but she’s still uncovering emotions and secrets from that tender time. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1970s, long-distance phone calls were expensive. So the Guinto family — split apart by the Pacific Ocean — used cassette tapes to stay connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Philippines, Glady remembers her grandparents holding out a tape recorder to say a message to her parents living in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Glady come here. It's time for you to say hi to your mom and your dad. Tell them what it's like here. Do you want them to bring you anything from the States?'\" Glady remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Glady was 2, her mom, Nella Guinto, got a visa to go to the U.S. as a nurse. Her husband also got a work visa. The idea was to bring their two kids as soon as they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long hospital shift, Nella couldn’t come home and kiss her kids. But she could pick up a tape recorder to send a clip of her voice to her children back in Quezon City. “Have you been good? Have you been playing?\" Nella would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11681684 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glady and her mother, Nella, listen to old tapes at her parents' home in Vallejo, California. \u003ccite>(Marisol Medina-Cadena/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, mother and daughter are going through some of those cassette tapes. Nella plugs in an old boombox, and she slips in a tape labeled \"1978.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On it, Glady is speaking Tagalog. She's 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tape is from a few months after she and her brother finally got to the U.S. She’s telling her grandparents in the Philippines that she’s going to kindergarten soon, and the family is sharing a one-bedroom apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the tape Glady’s grandparents sent back: They're promising to kill plenty of chickens, so they can feast next time the children visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So many of the tapes Glady and her mom find are broken. Perhaps the sounds from that critical time apart have been erased. But not in Glady’s mind. It’s all still vivid, even at age 44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11681414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glady and her father looking for tapes sent as letters, four decades ago. \u003ccite>(Marisol Medina-Cadena/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We weren't able to go backwards and talk about being apart from each other,” says Glady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, she has talked about the painful memories only with other people — not her mom and Dad. That’s because everyone in the Philippines told her she wasn’t supposed to be sad. Her parents had made it to America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. was always the place that almost every Filipino wanted to go. That was the dream,\" Glady says. \"And so the dream was happening for my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not how it felt to a 2-year old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was sad every day when she was gone and I just didn't know who to express that to, because everyone around me was saying that you should be happy, that you were going to join your mom soon,” Glady says, tearing up. “All the feelings that we had about being separated, it's almost like it was swept under the rug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Glady made it to California, and she was in elementary school, she saw a movie that reopened some of those wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know that scene in ‘Dumbo’ where Dumbo’s mom is in the little jail cell, and she reaches over and grabs Dumbo with her trunk through the bars? It felt like I was Dumbo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain came back again this summer, when she heard the stories of children separated from their parents at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glady says the worst news story for her was about a father who called his son in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don't you love me? Why did you leave me?\" the boy asks his father. \"Why can't we be together?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Glady, this was too familiar. “When you're a child, those are the only things that you really care about,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glady was reunited with her parents when she was 4. She remembers what it was like waiting for her dad at the gate in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2-800x755.jpg\" alt=\"Young Glady reunites with her father at San Francisco International Airport.\" width=\"800\" height=\"755\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11681756\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2-160x151.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2-240x227.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2-375x354.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2-520x491.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Glady reunites with her father at San Francisco International Airport.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Glady Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“'Where is he? That one? Is that my dad?'” Glady says. “And then when I see him finally, I'm like, ‘Oh, that's totally my dad because he's the one that's hugging me right now. And he loves me.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after nearly two years apart, it wasn’t just joyful hugs and kisses. Glady still has scars. And hearing those kids crying on the news, she knows it will be the same for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely think that there’s a mental health component. And so it almost feels like it's affected almost every really close relationship that I've had with people,” says Glady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or even casual relationships, like the one with her children’s violin teacher, who’s moving away. “The idea of her leaving just kind of sets me off. People leaving is very traumatic. And it's just a violin teacher, you know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glady has two boys of her own now, ages 10 and 14. When they were younger, she stayed home. She wanted to be there during their toddler years, because her mom and dad couldn’t be there for hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s grateful her parents got her to California, where she could make that choice. “They put us through college and we have jobs. So that's how it's come full circle, I guess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her parents' house in Vallejo, Glady joins them on the couch to look at photo albums. Some are so old that they have to unstick the brittle plastic pages to see them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-800x801.jpg\" alt=\"The Guinto family on the day Glady's mother left the Philippines for California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11681757\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-520x521.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Guinto family on the day Glady's mother left the Philippines for California.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Glady Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one photo from 1976, everyone’s dressed up. Glady is 2, wearing a pink sundress. She looks sad and confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glady asks her mom, “I might just be making that up, but it looks to me like you were crying?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mom ignores the question. It’s only when I press her that she opens up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess it's like a mixed feeling because when I was young, I really wanted to be a registered nurse and go to America,” says Nella. “But I didn't really completely feel that the separation will be that bad. And so I realized I had been crying and really missed them. Even leaving them to the grandparents, it's so heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then her dad reveals something huge. Something Glady never knew before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his wife didn’t choose to leave their kids behind in the Philippines. They had to. They couldn’t get them a visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We applied all at the same time, but the consul took them off, the two kids, because the consulate said to establish ourselves here first,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t want to leave their kids, but it was a sacrifice they had to make to get to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so hard. I could still cry,” Nella says. She puts a hand on Glady’s back, then chokes up and hugs her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Glady remains stiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s still protecting her parents from her pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Glady says she realized something new when she saw her mom finally cry about the separation. Nella felt guilty about that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she felt her mom’s hand on her back, it was like she was finally acknowledging the little girl she left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4-800x991.jpg\" alt=\"The Guinto Family in the Philippines, before their time apart. \" width=\"800\" height=\"991\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11681758\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4-160x198.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4-240x297.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4-375x465.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4-520x644.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Guinto Family in the Philippines, before their time apart.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Glady Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"For Glady Lee, watching the news of family separations at the U.S. southern border is triggering buried emotions.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1532132819,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":46,"wordCount":1424},"headData":{"title":"Healing From a Family Separation, Four Decades Later | KQED","description":"For Glady Lee, watching the news of family separations at the U.S. southern border is triggering buried emotions.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11681398 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11681398","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2018/07/20/healing-from-a-family-separation-four-decades-later/","disqusTitle":"Healing From a Family Separation, Four Decades Later","path":"/news/11681398/healing-from-a-family-separation-four-decades-later","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2018/07/TCRMag20180720b.mp3","audioDuration":579000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Many Californians have reacted to the separation of families at the border with outrage and sadness; with protests, donations and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-becerra-co-leads-lawsuit-against-trump-administrations-child\">lawsuit\u003c/a> against the federal government. But for some, like Glady Lee, the story feels especially personal, and familiar.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Glady was a toddler when her parents left her behind in the Philippines, seeking better jobs in California. That was four decades ago, but she’s still uncovering emotions and secrets from that tender time. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in the 1970s, long-distance phone calls were expensive. So the Guinto family — split apart by the Pacific Ocean — used cassette tapes to stay connected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Philippines, Glady remembers her grandparents holding out a tape recorder to say a message to her parents living in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Glady come here. It's time for you to say hi to your mom and your dad. Tell them what it's like here. Do you want them to bring you anything from the States?'\" Glady remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Glady was 2, her mom, Nella Guinto, got a visa to go to the U.S. as a nurse. Her husband also got a work visa. The idea was to bring their two kids as soon as they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a long hospital shift, Nella couldn’t come home and kiss her kids. But she could pick up a tape recorder to send a clip of her voice to her children back in Quezon City. “Have you been good? Have you been playing?\" Nella would say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681684\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11681684 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31930_Mom-Glady-1-qut-1-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glady and her mother, Nella, listen to old tapes at her parents' home in Vallejo, California. \u003ccite>(Marisol Medina-Cadena/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Today, mother and daughter are going through some of those cassette tapes. Nella plugs in an old boombox, and she slips in a tape labeled \"1978.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On it, Glady is speaking Tagalog. She's 4.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This tape is from a few months after she and her brother finally got to the U.S. She’s telling her grandparents in the Philippines that she’s going to kindergarten soon, and the family is sharing a one-bedroom apartment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And then there’s the tape Glady’s grandparents sent back: They're promising to kill plenty of chickens, so they can feast next time the children visit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So many of the tapes Glady and her mom find are broken. Perhaps the sounds from that critical time apart have been erased. But not in Glady’s mind. It’s all still vivid, even at age 44.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11681414\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS31928_Dad-Glady-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glady and her father looking for tapes sent as letters, four decades ago. \u003ccite>(Marisol Medina-Cadena/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We weren't able to go backwards and talk about being apart from each other,” says Glady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, she has talked about the painful memories only with other people — not her mom and Dad. That’s because everyone in the Philippines told her she wasn’t supposed to be sad. Her parents had made it to America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The U.S. was always the place that almost every Filipino wanted to go. That was the dream,\" Glady says. \"And so the dream was happening for my family.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not how it felt to a 2-year old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was sad every day when she was gone and I just didn't know who to express that to, because everyone around me was saying that you should be happy, that you were going to join your mom soon,” Glady says, tearing up. “All the feelings that we had about being separated, it's almost like it was swept under the rug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once Glady made it to California, and she was in elementary school, she saw a movie that reopened some of those wounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know that scene in ‘Dumbo’ where Dumbo’s mom is in the little jail cell, and she reaches over and grabs Dumbo with her trunk through the bars? It felt like I was Dumbo.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pain came back again this summer, when she heard the stories of children separated from their parents at the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glady says the worst news story for her was about a father who called his son in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don't you love me? Why did you leave me?\" the boy asks his father. \"Why can't we be together?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Glady, this was too familiar. “When you're a child, those are the only things that you really care about,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glady was reunited with her parents when she was 4. She remembers what it was like waiting for her dad at the gate in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681756\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2-800x755.jpg\" alt=\"Young Glady reunites with her father at San Francisco International Airport.\" width=\"800\" height=\"755\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11681756\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2-160x151.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2-240x227.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2-375x354.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/TCR-2-520x491.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Young Glady reunites with her father at San Francisco International Airport.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Glady Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“'Where is he? That one? Is that my dad?'” Glady says. “And then when I see him finally, I'm like, ‘Oh, that's totally my dad because he's the one that's hugging me right now. And he loves me.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after nearly two years apart, it wasn’t just joyful hugs and kisses. Glady still has scars. And hearing those kids crying on the news, she knows it will be the same for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I definitely think that there’s a mental health component. And so it almost feels like it's affected almost every really close relationship that I've had with people,” says Glady.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or even casual relationships, like the one with her children’s violin teacher, who’s moving away. “The idea of her leaving just kind of sets me off. People leaving is very traumatic. And it's just a violin teacher, you know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glady has two boys of her own now, ages 10 and 14. When they were younger, she stayed home. She wanted to be there during their toddler years, because her mom and dad couldn’t be there for hers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s grateful her parents got her to California, where she could make that choice. “They put us through college and we have jobs. So that's how it's come full circle, I guess.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At her parents' house in Vallejo, Glady joins them on the couch to look at photo albums. Some are so old that they have to unstick the brittle plastic pages to see them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681757\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-800x801.jpg\" alt=\"The Guinto family on the day Glady's mother left the Philippines for California. \" width=\"800\" height=\"801\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11681757\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-240x240.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-375x375.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-520x521.jpg 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-32x32.jpg 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-50x50.jpg 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-64x64.jpg 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-96x96.jpg 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-128x128.jpg 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-3-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Guinto family on the day Glady's mother left the Philippines for California.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Glady Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one photo from 1976, everyone’s dressed up. Glady is 2, wearing a pink sundress. She looks sad and confused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Glady asks her mom, “I might just be making that up, but it looks to me like you were crying?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her mom ignores the question. It’s only when I press her that she opens up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I guess it's like a mixed feeling because when I was young, I really wanted to be a registered nurse and go to America,” says Nella. “But I didn't really completely feel that the separation will be that bad. And so I realized I had been crying and really missed them. Even leaving them to the grandparents, it's so heartbreaking.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then her dad reveals something huge. Something Glady never knew before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and his wife didn’t choose to leave their kids behind in the Philippines. They had to. They couldn’t get them a visa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We applied all at the same time, but the consul took them off, the two kids, because the consulate said to establish ourselves here first,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t want to leave their kids, but it was a sacrifice they had to make to get to California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was so hard. I could still cry,” Nella says. She puts a hand on Glady’s back, then chokes up and hugs her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Glady remains stiff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s still protecting her parents from her pain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, Glady says she realized something new when she saw her mom finally cry about the separation. Nella felt guilty about that time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she felt her mom’s hand on her back, it was like she was finally acknowledging the little girl she left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11681758\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4-800x991.jpg\" alt=\"The Guinto Family in the Philippines, before their time apart. \" width=\"800\" height=\"991\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11681758\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4-160x198.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4-240x297.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4-375x465.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/tcr-4-520x644.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Guinto Family in the Philippines, before their time apart.\u003cbr> \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Glady Lee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11681398/healing-from-a-family-separation-four-decades-later","authors":["254"],"programs":["news_72"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_23456","news_5055","news_2138"],"featImg":"news_11681773","label":"news_72"},"news_11625813":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11625813","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11625813","score":null,"sort":[1508928275000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"world-war-two-filipino-veterans-congressional-gold-medal","title":"To Help Heal an Unhappy History, Congress Awards Medal to Filipino World War II Vets","publishDate":1508928275,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The words don’t come easy for Ramon Regalado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 100, and frail, and for now the longtime Berkeley resident is living at an El Cerrito convalescent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says, “I am so happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he's joyful about is a ceremony Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to honor Filipinos who served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the House and Senate will award \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1555/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Congressional Gold Medal\u003c/a> -- the highest civilian honor Congress can bestow -- in long-delayed recognition of the Filipinos' role in resisting the Japanese invasion of their islands in 1941 and in helping the United States defeat Japan. The text of the bill approving the medal cites the veterans' \"bravery, valor and dedication.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regalado is one of those vets, having been part of the Philippines armed forces that merged with the U.S. Army just months before Japan attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They train us to fight hard and be ferocious when the Japanese come,\" Regalado says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A machine-gunner and mortarman, he put that training to use in one of the most harrowing of all World War II campaigns, the defense of the Bataan Peninsula west of Manila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 66,000 Filipino troops alongside a 12,000-strong U.S. force fought Japanese troops to a standstill in a long series of bloody engagements at the end of 1941 and start of 1942. Beyond help -- the U.S. didn't have the capacity to send reinforcements or supplies -- Regalado and his comrades endured half-rations, then quarter-rations, as they resisted the invaders for four full months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When American commanders surrendered in April 1942, the Japanese forced survivors of the campaign on a long trek into captivity that immediately became notorious as the Bataan Death March. Several hundred Americans and as many as 10,000 Filipinos died along the way -- and many more perished later as prisoners of war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regalado, starving and suffering from malaria, beriberi and dysentery “all mixed up,\" escaped the march. Saved by a fisherman, he joined guerrilla forces until Gen. Douglas MacArthur -- the U.S. commander who had evacuated during the fighting -- came back to reconquer the islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not go home until General MacArthur came back to the Philippines, to liberate the Philippines,” Regalado says. “I fought hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/hands171020a-e1508905663390.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/hands171020a-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramon Regalado served as a machine-gunner and mortarman during the defense of the Bataan Peninsula from Japanese invaders in 1941-42. He said air-cooled .50-caliber machine guns were an improvement over earlier models, though he still burned his hands after firing. Another firearm was his favorite. \"The best weapon I like was the Browning automatic rifle. I could wipe out a platoon of Japanese if I hold that, easy.\" \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An Uneasy History\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Congressional Gold Medal being awarded Wednesday is the latest gesture from a federal government that has long had an uneasy relationship with the Filipino veterans and their service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1946, less than a year after the end of World War II and just as the Philippines were about to gain their independence from the United States, President Harry Truman had occasion to recall the service of the roughly 250,000 Filipinos who had served with U.S. forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The record of the Philippine soldiers for bravery and loyalty is second to none,\" Truman wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1564&st=philippine&st1=veterans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a message to Congress\u003c/a>. \"Their assignment was as bloody and difficult as any in which our American soldiers engaged. Under desperate circumstances they acquitted themselves nobly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The context for Truman's words was ironic: He was helping finalize a policy that stripped Filipino service members -- who, as citizens of a U.S. commonwealth were American nationals -- of most of the veterans benefits his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had promised them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truman conceded that the minimal benefits that remained -- mainly medical treatment and pensions for vets disabled during the war -- was not enough to cure “the current discrimination against the Philippines veterans.” But he insisted that even the reduced level of aid “will clearly indicate to the Filipinos that it is the purpose of the United States Government to do justice to their veterans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2009, though, that Congress and the Obama administration approved “equity pay” for surviving Filipino veterans. Under the program, veterans living who can prove their service can get $15,000 lump-sum payments (for vets living in the Philippines, the amount is $9,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program has been the subject of widespread complaints, though, since many of the former Filipino service members \u003ca href=\"http://usa.inquirer.net/7520/centenarian-vet-wins-appeal-wwii-filvets-get-congressional-gold-medal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lack the paperwork\u003c/a> to secure the one-time payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cecilia Gaerlan heads the Berkeley-based \u003ca href=\"http://bataanlegacy.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bataan Legacy Historical Society\u003c/a>. Visiting Ramon Regalado, she says her father was a Bataan Death March survivor and that she had no idea of what he had endured until long after the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My father, he was a comedian, so the way he related the stories was actually funny,\" Gaerlan said. \"... I think that's the typical reaction. Most of these soldiers, they never told their families the pain and the sacrifice they went through.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaerlan says the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony today is just a small step in shedding light on this past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says education is the key to gaining wider public awareness of Filipinos' sacrifices during the war. To promote that, the Bataan Legacy Historical Society has developed a curriculum on the war in the Philippines that was recently approved for use in California high school history courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of California's influence in the textbook market, Gaerlan says, it's likely that material will wind up in high schools nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So it's just a matter of time before the rest of the country will learn about World War II in the Philippines,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/ceciliagaerlan171020-e1508904936856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/ceciliagaerlan171020-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecilia Gaerlan of Berkeley heads the Bataan Legacy Historical Society, a group that is working for wider public awareness of the sacrifices the Filipino fighting men and civilians made during Japan's occupation of their homeland during World War II. Here, she's talking with Ramon Regalado, also of Berkeley, a 100-year-old veteran who was among the defenders of Bataan. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Some 75 years after Filipinos suffered through some of war's most harrowing episodes, a recognition of 'bravery, valor and dedication.'","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1508977816,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":27,"wordCount":1042},"headData":{"title":"To Help Heal an Unhappy History, Congress Awards Medal to Filipino World War II Vets | KQED","description":"Some 75 years after Filipinos suffered through some of war's most harrowing episodes, a recognition of 'bravery, valor and dedication.'","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11625813 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11625813","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/25/world-war-two-filipino-veterans-congressional-gold-medal/","disqusTitle":"To Help Heal an Unhappy History, Congress Awards Medal to Filipino World War II Vets","audioUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcr/2017/10/FilipinoVeteranBrekke.mp3","path":"/news/11625813/world-war-two-filipino-veterans-congressional-gold-medal","audioDuration":127000,"audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The words don’t come easy for Ramon Regalado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s 100, and frail, and for now the longtime Berkeley resident is living at an El Cerrito convalescent home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he says, “I am so happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he's joyful about is a ceremony Wednesday in Washington, D.C., to honor Filipinos who served in the U.S. armed forces during World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leaders of the House and Senate will award \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/1555/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a Congressional Gold Medal\u003c/a> -- the highest civilian honor Congress can bestow -- in long-delayed recognition of the Filipinos' role in resisting the Japanese invasion of their islands in 1941 and in helping the United States defeat Japan. The text of the bill approving the medal cites the veterans' \"bravery, valor and dedication.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regalado is one of those vets, having been part of the Philippines armed forces that merged with the U.S. Army just months before Japan attacked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They train us to fight hard and be ferocious when the Japanese come,\" Regalado says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A machine-gunner and mortarman, he put that training to use in one of the most harrowing of all World War II campaigns, the defense of the Bataan Peninsula west of Manila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 66,000 Filipino troops alongside a 12,000-strong U.S. force fought Japanese troops to a standstill in a long series of bloody engagements at the end of 1941 and start of 1942. Beyond help -- the U.S. didn't have the capacity to send reinforcements or supplies -- Regalado and his comrades endured half-rations, then quarter-rations, as they resisted the invaders for four full months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When American commanders surrendered in April 1942, the Japanese forced survivors of the campaign on a long trek into captivity that immediately became notorious as the Bataan Death March. Several hundred Americans and as many as 10,000 Filipinos died along the way -- and many more perished later as prisoners of war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regalado, starving and suffering from malaria, beriberi and dysentery “all mixed up,\" escaped the march. Saved by a fisherman, he joined guerrilla forces until Gen. Douglas MacArthur -- the U.S. commander who had evacuated during the fighting -- came back to reconquer the islands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not go home until General MacArthur came back to the Philippines, to liberate the Philippines,” Regalado says. “I fought hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/hands171020a-e1508905663390.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625816\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/hands171020a-800x546.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramon Regalado served as a machine-gunner and mortarman during the defense of the Bataan Peninsula from Japanese invaders in 1941-42. He said air-cooled .50-caliber machine guns were an improvement over earlier models, though he still burned his hands after firing. Another firearm was his favorite. \"The best weapon I like was the Browning automatic rifle. I could wipe out a platoon of Japanese if I hold that, easy.\" \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>An Uneasy History\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Congressional Gold Medal being awarded Wednesday is the latest gesture from a federal government that has long had an uneasy relationship with the Filipino veterans and their service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1946, less than a year after the end of World War II and just as the Philippines were about to gain their independence from the United States, President Harry Truman had occasion to recall the service of the roughly 250,000 Filipinos who had served with U.S. forces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The record of the Philippine soldiers for bravery and loyalty is second to none,\" Truman wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://www.trumanlibrary.org/publicpapers/index.php?pid=1564&st=philippine&st1=veterans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a message to Congress\u003c/a>. \"Their assignment was as bloody and difficult as any in which our American soldiers engaged. Under desperate circumstances they acquitted themselves nobly.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The context for Truman's words was ironic: He was helping finalize a policy that stripped Filipino service members -- who, as citizens of a U.S. commonwealth were American nationals -- of most of the veterans benefits his predecessor, Franklin D. Roosevelt, had promised them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Truman conceded that the minimal benefits that remained -- mainly medical treatment and pensions for vets disabled during the war -- was not enough to cure “the current discrimination against the Philippines veterans.” But he insisted that even the reduced level of aid “will clearly indicate to the Filipinos that it is the purpose of the United States Government to do justice to their veterans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t until 2009, though, that Congress and the Obama administration approved “equity pay” for surviving Filipino veterans. Under the program, veterans living who can prove their service can get $15,000 lump-sum payments (for vets living in the Philippines, the amount is $9,000).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program has been the subject of widespread complaints, though, since many of the former Filipino service members \u003ca href=\"http://usa.inquirer.net/7520/centenarian-vet-wins-appeal-wwii-filvets-get-congressional-gold-medal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lack the paperwork\u003c/a> to secure the one-time payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cecilia Gaerlan heads the Berkeley-based \u003ca href=\"http://bataanlegacy.org/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bataan Legacy Historical Society\u003c/a>. Visiting Ramon Regalado, she says her father was a Bataan Death March survivor and that she had no idea of what he had endured until long after the war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My father, he was a comedian, so the way he related the stories was actually funny,\" Gaerlan said. \"... I think that's the typical reaction. Most of these soldiers, they never told their families the pain and the sacrifice they went through.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gaerlan says the Congressional Gold Medal ceremony today is just a small step in shedding light on this past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says education is the key to gaining wider public awareness of Filipinos' sacrifices during the war. To promote that, the Bataan Legacy Historical Society has developed a curriculum on the war in the Philippines that was recently approved for use in California high school history courses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because of California's influence in the textbook market, Gaerlan says, it's likely that material will wind up in high schools nationwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So it's just a matter of time before the rest of the country will learn about World War II in the Philippines,\" she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11625815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/ceciliagaerlan171020-e1508904936856.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11625815\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/10/ceciliagaerlan171020-800x568.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cecilia Gaerlan of Berkeley heads the Bataan Legacy Historical Society, a group that is working for wider public awareness of the sacrifices the Filipino fighting men and civilians made during Japan's occupation of their homeland during World War II. Here, she's talking with Ramon Regalado, also of Berkeley, a 100-year-old veteran who was among the defenders of Bataan. \u003ccite>(Dan Brekke/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11625813/world-war-two-filipino-veterans-congressional-gold-medal","authors":["222"],"programs":["news_6944","news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_20855","news_5055","news_17286","news_17041","news_236"],"featImg":"news_11625814","label":"news_72"},"news_11429742":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11429742","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11429742","score":null,"sort":[1493481604000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"an-immigrant-love-story-four-decades-in-the-making","title":"An Immigrant Love Story, Four Decades in the Making","publishDate":1493481604,"format":"audio","headTitle":"USC | The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of “\u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/news/students/usc-annenberg-student-journalists-kqeds-california-report-publish-joint-investigation\">At Risk in the Trump Era\u003c/a>,” a four-month investigation by USC Annenberg advanced radio students, exploring how vulnerable communities across Southern California react to the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency. The series profiles individuals burdened by new worries — looking for work, signing up for school, or even deciding whether to publicly express their sexual orientation or religious affiliation. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://paolamardo.com/\">Paola Mardo'\u003c/a>s story focuses on \"Tess\" and \"Marco,\" who are among the more than 300,000 undocumented Filipinos in the U.S. -- forced from their home country because of poverty, corruption and a deadly drug war. They’ve asked to change their names for this story because they don’t want to put their community or their relationship at risk.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess and Marco's love story started when they were teenagers. It was Marco who first caught the love bug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love her since we were in high school,” says Marco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my buddy-buddy and he was my best friend. And I didn’t even know that he got interest in me,” Tess smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess didn’t know about Marco’s feelings partly because he was planning to be a priest. His Catholic family and everyone at school knew it. So even though they cared for each other, Tess and Marco stayed “buddy-buddy” in high school, and then parted ways after graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when priesthood didn’t work out, Marco always kept Tess in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four times I dream of her,” Marco remembers. “1989, 1992, ’98, and 2002.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"9o1Bghaic4Q7ZjmfMnN3z1Hl0oVg1n6Q\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2012, 37 years after graduation, they finally reconnected. Their romance rekindled when Marco began searching for Tess on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, Marco got the idea to search for his high school class. “Ping! Voila,” he grins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Hi. Remember me?’ That’s what he said.” Tess recalls. He sent her a few more messages after that: “‘I’m adding you as a friend. You’re not accepting yet.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Tess a few days to confirm this was the Marco she knew from high school decades ago. So much time had passed and she wanted to be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she got Marco's message, Tess was in Los Angeles working as a caregiver and domestic worker for the sick and elderly. Marco was in Saudi Arabia, managing a printing press for an Arabic newspaper. Though they were 8,000 miles apart, they began messaging each other or having online video chats almost every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429832\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11429832 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tess and Marco play sungka, a traditional Filipino mancala game.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess and Marco play sungka, a traditional Filipino mancala game. \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marco sifts through their old Facebook messages and reads them aloud. “I told her, ‘Take care always and bear in mind always that I love you very much.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt like we’re in high school again,\" says Tess. “But it was so corny. So corny because we’re already old!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marco translates another message and laughs. “I told her, ‘You look old!’ She told me, ‘What do you expect? \u003cem>Sa hirap ng pinagdaanan ko\u003c/em>?’ (After the difficulties I’ve been through?)”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess's life was troubled after high school. Before coming to America, she was married to an abusive husband in Manila. Tess says he was possessive, hit her and was emotionally abusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her husband left his job and gambled away their savings, Tess was forced to look for overseas caregiver jobs to support their kids and make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these jobs were in the U.S., where she was forced to work long hours. Tess recalls a harrowing experience in which one employer refused to feed her, and she was forced to eat dog food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11429835 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tess paints at home to take her mind off recent immigration news.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess paints at home to take her mind off recent immigration news. \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tess rarely saw the money she was paid for these jobs. It wasn’t until much later that she realized she’d been a victim of labor trafficking. When she finally escaped her last abusive employer, she followed one of her daughters, who had moved to Los Angeles. It wasn’t an easy transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worked job after job,” Tess recalls. “I was homeless that time, trying to establish myself alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess got a divorce and wanted to restart her life. Marco was in a similar rut. He grew tired of living so far from friends and family in Saudi Arabia. That’s when he sent Tess that fateful friend request. And after months of chatting, he saved up some money to visit her in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess remembers the moment she saw Marco at the airport, the first time she laid eyes on him after 37 years. “I said, ‘This is for real? Wow, he’s still cute!’ ” She beats her chest and voices the sound of a fast-beating heart: “Boog-boog! Boog-boog!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just meet at the middle and then I kiss her,” Marco recalls, smacking his lips together. “Muah! Only in cheek. I whisper her, ‘I’m going to kneel and then propose with you to marry me.’ And then she told me, ‘No, no! Not here!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11429834 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tess and Marco visit a community center where the flags of the United States and the Philippines are displayed next to images of Filipino veterans of the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE).\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess and Marco visit a community center where the flags of the United States and the Philippines are displayed next to images of Filipino veterans of the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE). \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tess had overstayed her visa. She was worried she would get picked up by U.S. customs agents if they attracted too much attention at the airport. So Marco withheld his proposal, but he moved in with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When his visa is about to expire, I said to him, ‘So what’s your plan? You can go back.’ ” Tess said. “He said, ‘No, I’m not going to leave you anymore with these things happening to you. We’re going to live here.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess is now a caregiver for employers that she says treat her well and give her fair pay. Marco is a maintenance worker and usually the house chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"2pbzTxX7TULwqIjsDVdgOapotRq3txhJ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Tess share a laugh. But the risk is real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing about an immigration raid in Los Angeles targeting undocumented Filipinos, Tess and Marco attend a “Know Your Rights” workshop. In a crowded room, undocumented Filipino immigrants watch as volunteers act out what to do if ICE comes knocking: Don't sign anything, don't give agents permission to search you or your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the workshop, Tess leads the group in a Tagalog song about the struggles of the immigrant experience: “\u003cem>Ang buhay ng migrante isang mahabang laban\u003c/em>,\" or \"The life of an immigrant is one long fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11429836 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A poster hangs by the entrance to a community center that Tess and Marco visit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster hangs by the entrance to a community center that Tess and Marco visit. \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tess looks around the room. Though most people are in good spirits, there are many scared and anxious faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an old saying in Tagalog: “\u003cem>Bahala na\u003c/em>.” It means “come what may” or “whatever happens, happens.” It’s how Tess and Marco look at their situation. Fate brought them together, and fate will keep them together in America, they say, no matter what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have established a good life here in America. We built our dream after 37 years,” Tess says. “But if I’ll be deported, I’ll fight for my rights. Until the last breath. I’ll fight for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will fight,” Marco says. “Fight, fight, fight.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Undocumented couple say fate brought them together, and fate will keep them together in America.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1493425939,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":38,"wordCount":1342},"headData":{"title":"An Immigrant Love Story, Four Decades in the Making | KQED","description":"Undocumented couple say fate brought them together, and fate will keep them together in America.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"11429742 https://ww2.kqed.org/news/?p=11429742","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/04/29/an-immigrant-love-story-four-decades-in-the-making/","disqusTitle":"An Immigrant Love Story, Four Decades in the Making","audioUrl":"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2017/04/2017-04-28b-tcrmag.mp3","guestFields":"0","nprByline":"Paola Mardo","path":"/news/11429742/an-immigrant-love-story-four-decades-in-the-making","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of “\u003ca href=\"http://annenberg.usc.edu/news/students/usc-annenberg-student-journalists-kqeds-california-report-publish-joint-investigation\">At Risk in the Trump Era\u003c/a>,” a four-month investigation by USC Annenberg advanced radio students, exploring how vulnerable communities across Southern California react to the first months of Donald Trump’s presidency. The series profiles individuals burdened by new worries — looking for work, signing up for school, or even deciding whether to publicly express their sexual orientation or religious affiliation. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://paolamardo.com/\">Paola Mardo'\u003c/a>s story focuses on \"Tess\" and \"Marco,\" who are among the more than 300,000 undocumented Filipinos in the U.S. -- forced from their home country because of poverty, corruption and a deadly drug war. They’ve asked to change their names for this story because they don’t want to put their community or their relationship at risk.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess and Marco's love story started when they were teenagers. It was Marco who first caught the love bug.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love her since we were in high school,” says Marco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was my buddy-buddy and he was my best friend. And I didn’t even know that he got interest in me,” Tess smiles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess didn’t know about Marco’s feelings partly because he was planning to be a priest. His Catholic family and everyone at school knew it. So even though they cared for each other, Tess and Marco stayed “buddy-buddy” in high school, and then parted ways after graduation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when priesthood didn’t work out, Marco always kept Tess in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Four times I dream of her,” Marco remembers. “1989, 1992, ’98, and 2002.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then in 2012, 37 years after graduation, they finally reconnected. Their romance rekindled when Marco began searching for Tess on Facebook.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day, Marco got the idea to search for his high school class. “Ping! Voila,” he grins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘Hi. Remember me?’ That’s what he said.” Tess recalls. He sent her a few more messages after that: “‘I’m adding you as a friend. You’re not accepting yet.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Tess a few days to confirm this was the Marco she knew from high school decades ago. So much time had passed and she wanted to be sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she got Marco's message, Tess was in Los Angeles working as a caregiver and domestic worker for the sick and elderly. Marco was in Saudi Arabia, managing a printing press for an Arabic newspaper. Though they were 8,000 miles apart, they began messaging each other or having online video chats almost every day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429832\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11429832 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tess and Marco play sungka, a traditional Filipino mancala game.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS-AND-MARCO-HANDS-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess and Marco play sungka, a traditional Filipino mancala game. \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Marco sifts through their old Facebook messages and reads them aloud. “I told her, ‘Take care always and bear in mind always that I love you very much.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We felt like we’re in high school again,\" says Tess. “But it was so corny. So corny because we’re already old!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marco translates another message and laughs. “I told her, ‘You look old!’ She told me, ‘What do you expect? \u003cem>Sa hirap ng pinagdaanan ko\u003c/em>?’ (After the difficulties I’ve been through?)”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess's life was troubled after high school. Before coming to America, she was married to an abusive husband in Manila. Tess says he was possessive, hit her and was emotionally abusive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her husband left his job and gambled away their savings, Tess was forced to look for overseas caregiver jobs to support their kids and make ends meet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these jobs were in the U.S., where she was forced to work long hours. Tess recalls a harrowing experience in which one employer refused to feed her, and she was forced to eat dog food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429835\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11429835 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tess paints at home to take her mind off recent immigration news.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/TESS_PAINTING-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess paints at home to take her mind off recent immigration news. \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tess rarely saw the money she was paid for these jobs. It wasn’t until much later that she realized she’d been a victim of labor trafficking. When she finally escaped her last abusive employer, she followed one of her daughters, who had moved to Los Angeles. It wasn’t an easy transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I worked job after job,” Tess recalls. “I was homeless that time, trying to establish myself alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess got a divorce and wanted to restart her life. Marco was in a similar rut. He grew tired of living so far from friends and family in Saudi Arabia. That’s when he sent Tess that fateful friend request. And after months of chatting, he saved up some money to visit her in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess remembers the moment she saw Marco at the airport, the first time she laid eyes on him after 37 years. “I said, ‘This is for real? Wow, he’s still cute!’ ” She beats her chest and voices the sound of a fast-beating heart: “Boog-boog! Boog-boog!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just meet at the middle and then I kiss her,” Marco recalls, smacking his lips together. “Muah! Only in cheek. I whisper her, ‘I’m going to kneel and then propose with you to marry me.’ And then she told me, ‘No, no! Not here!’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429834\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11429834 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Tess and Marco visit a community center where the flags of the United States and the Philippines are displayed next to images of Filipino veterans of the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE).\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FLAGS-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tess and Marco visit a community center where the flags of the United States and the Philippines are displayed next to images of Filipino veterans of the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE). \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tess had overstayed her visa. She was worried she would get picked up by U.S. customs agents if they attracted too much attention at the airport. So Marco withheld his proposal, but he moved in with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When his visa is about to expire, I said to him, ‘So what’s your plan? You can go back.’ ” Tess said. “He said, ‘No, I’m not going to leave you anymore with these things happening to you. We’re going to live here.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tess is now a caregiver for employers that she says treat her well and give her fair pay. Marco is a maintenance worker and usually the house chef.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and Tess share a laugh. But the risk is real.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After hearing about an immigration raid in Los Angeles targeting undocumented Filipinos, Tess and Marco attend a “Know Your Rights” workshop. In a crowded room, undocumented Filipino immigrants watch as volunteers act out what to do if ICE comes knocking: Don't sign anything, don't give agents permission to search you or your home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the workshop, Tess leads the group in a Tagalog song about the struggles of the immigrant experience: “\u003cem>Ang buhay ng migrante isang mahabang laban\u003c/em>,\" or \"The life of an immigrant is one long fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11429836\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11429836 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"A poster hangs by the entrance to a community center that Tess and Marco visit.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-960x720.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2017/04/FIGHTERS-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A poster hangs by the entrance to a community center that Tess and Marco visit. \u003ccite>(Paola Mardo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tess looks around the room. Though most people are in good spirits, there are many scared and anxious faces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s an old saying in Tagalog: “\u003cem>Bahala na\u003c/em>.” It means “come what may” or “whatever happens, happens.” It’s how Tess and Marco look at their situation. Fate brought them together, and fate will keep them together in America, they say, no matter what.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have established a good life here in America. We built our dream after 37 years,” Tess says. “But if I’ll be deported, I’ll fight for my rights. Until the last breath. I’ll fight for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will fight,” Marco says. “Fight, fight, fight.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11429742/an-immigrant-love-story-four-decades-in-the-making","authors":["byline_news_11429742"],"programs":["news_72"],"series":["news_20860"],"categories":["news_1169","news_8"],"tags":["news_5056","news_20856","news_5055","news_5762","news_17286","news_20529","news_244"],"featImg":"news_11429831","label":"news_72"},"news_10341492":{"type":"posts","id":"news_10341492","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"10341492","score":null,"sort":[1393608858000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"using-art-to-reinforce-identity-and-ties-to-the-philippines","title":"Using Art to Reinforce Identity and Ties to the Philippines","publishDate":1393608858,"format":"standard","headTitle":"The California Report | KQED News","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/tcrmag/2014/03/20140228dtcrmag.mp3\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A projector casts four images on a wall. It makes a clicking sound, and then the images spin, as if they were reels on a slot machine. The piece, by artist Mark Salvatus, shows the gritty streets and graffiti of Manila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the first museum exhibits of its kind, a broad swath of Filipino art has been assembled into a traveling exhibition, currently on view at the \u003ca href=\"http://fisher.usc.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">USC Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles\u003c/a>. Speaking of the projected photo piece, the exhibit's curator, Maria Teresa Lapid Rodriguez, called it \"a confessional of the masses,\" showing, as it does, many of the words scribbled on the urban landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The artist, Mark Salvatus, was so fascinated to go to the city. He grew up in the countryside and when he saw the city, he just started photographing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141503\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/philart1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10141503 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/philart1-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Opening night at "The Triumph of Philippine Art," a traveling exhibit currently on view at USC's Fisher Art Museum in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Pilar Brooks)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opening night at \"The Triumph of Philippine Art,\" a traveling exhibit currently on view at USC's Fisher Art Museum in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Pilar Brooks)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The show covers the period of martial law implemented under \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos\" target=\"_blank\">Ferdinand Marcos\u003c/a> in 1972, through the People Power movement that removed him and restored democracy in the '80s, to the present day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Philippines has been struggling for a long time, and they're coming out now,\" Rodriguez said. \"The sense of freedom, nationalism, it's all in this show.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other pieces in the exhibition include a long pencil sketch of a grand Philippines estate drawn on a roll of toilet paper, and a video of a performance piece with the artist hacking at white laundry, as blood spurts out and reddens the pile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Rodriguez 20 years to generate the interest and funds for an exhibition like this. She took it as a challenge -- and an indication that there was no consciousness of contemporary Filipino art -- and stuck with the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles is a case in point. The city is home to more than 600,000 Filipino-Americans, but this show is the first time some of them have seen art from the Philippines. Ivan Blanco, a fine arts student at USC, wandered into the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I'm Filipino, so I figured I'd check out some art made by Filipino artists,\" Blanco remarked. \"I don't really know that much about my culture as I thought I did, but seeing art made by other Filipinos is cool and it's making me more interested in uncovering my culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141507\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/philart2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141507\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/philart2-400x299.jpg\" alt=\"Art from the opening night at "The Triumph of Philippine Art," a traveling exhibit currently on view at USC's Fisher Art Museum in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Pilar Brooks)\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art from the opening night at \"The Triumph of Philippine Art,\" a traveling exhibit currently on view at USC's Fisher Art Museum in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Pilar Brooks)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A divide with the home country is common in the Filipino-American community. Geography is one barrier. But according to Evelyn Rodriguez, a professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco, there’s also the issue of fading into the woodwork as a distinct ethnic group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Filipinos are part of this brown population in the States that a lot of people sort of homogenize,\" Rodriguez said. \"So people classify a lot of us with other Asian-American groups or even Latinos. So, it's a community that has been invisible for a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in L.A., that community has been creating distinct cultural capital for about two decades. There’s Filipino-American painting, performance art, animation, a yearly cultural festival and a thriving music video scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent festival devoted exclusively to Filipino and Filipino-American music videos, viewers laughed at inside jokes as they watched Filipino-Americans rap as they drove around the streets of Los Angeles. In other videos, campy game-show hosts introduced singers in Tagalog. The festival was co-sponsored by the organization FilAm ARTS, which connects artists and stages shows and festivals around California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having more of these shows is really important because it solidifies our identity,\" said artist Tala Mateo, who works with FilAm ARTS. Mateo thinks an artistic identity can help the sizable Filipino-American population in Los Angeles be heard. And developing ties with the home country would also give U.S.-based Filipino-American artists an important historical reference point upon which to draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who we're a part of, who we're attached to, who we're related to. If we get lost in any way, shape or form, at least we can hold onto that and know we come from somewhere,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateo believes that developing ties and understanding between the U.S. and the Philippines is a matter of survival, on both sides of the ocean. 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It makes a clicking sound, and then the images spin, as if they were reels on a slot machine. The piece, by artist Mark Salvatus, shows the gritty streets and graffiti of Manila.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one of the first museum exhibits of its kind, a broad swath of Filipino art has been assembled into a traveling exhibition, currently on view at the \u003ca href=\"http://fisher.usc.edu/\" target=\"_blank\">USC Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles\u003c/a>. Speaking of the projected photo piece, the exhibit's curator, Maria Teresa Lapid Rodriguez, called it \"a confessional of the masses,\" showing, as it does, many of the words scribbled on the urban landscape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The artist, Mark Salvatus, was so fascinated to go to the city. He grew up in the countryside and when he saw the city, he just started photographing it.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141503\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/philart1.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10141503 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/philart1-400x225.jpg\" alt=\"Opening night at "The Triumph of Philippine Art," a traveling exhibit currently on view at USC's Fisher Art Museum in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Pilar Brooks)\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opening night at \"The Triumph of Philippine Art,\" a traveling exhibit currently on view at USC's Fisher Art Museum in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Pilar Brooks)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The show covers the period of martial law implemented under \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Marcos\" target=\"_blank\">Ferdinand Marcos\u003c/a> in 1972, through the People Power movement that removed him and restored democracy in the '80s, to the present day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Philippines has been struggling for a long time, and they're coming out now,\" Rodriguez said. \"The sense of freedom, nationalism, it's all in this show.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other pieces in the exhibition include a long pencil sketch of a grand Philippines estate drawn on a roll of toilet paper, and a video of a performance piece with the artist hacking at white laundry, as blood spurts out and reddens the pile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took Rodriguez 20 years to generate the interest and funds for an exhibition like this. She took it as a challenge -- and an indication that there was no consciousness of contemporary Filipino art -- and stuck with the idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles is a case in point. The city is home to more than 600,000 Filipino-Americans, but this show is the first time some of them have seen art from the Philippines. Ivan Blanco, a fine arts student at USC, wandered into the museum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Well, I'm Filipino, so I figured I'd check out some art made by Filipino artists,\" Blanco remarked. \"I don't really know that much about my culture as I thought I did, but seeing art made by other Filipinos is cool and it's making me more interested in uncovering my culture.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10141507\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/philart2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-10141507\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/philart2-400x299.jpg\" alt=\"Art from the opening night at "The Triumph of Philippine Art," a traveling exhibit currently on view at USC's Fisher Art Museum in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Pilar Brooks)\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Art from the opening night at \"The Triumph of Philippine Art,\" a traveling exhibit currently on view at USC's Fisher Art Museum in Los Angeles. (Courtesy of Pilar Brooks)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A divide with the home country is common in the Filipino-American community. Geography is one barrier. But according to Evelyn Rodriguez, a professor of sociology at the University of San Francisco, there’s also the issue of fading into the woodwork as a distinct ethnic group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Filipinos are part of this brown population in the States that a lot of people sort of homogenize,\" Rodriguez said. \"So people classify a lot of us with other Asian-American groups or even Latinos. So, it's a community that has been invisible for a long time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in L.A., that community has been creating distinct cultural capital for about two decades. There’s Filipino-American painting, performance art, animation, a yearly cultural festival and a thriving music video scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent festival devoted exclusively to Filipino and Filipino-American music videos, viewers laughed at inside jokes as they watched Filipino-Americans rap as they drove around the streets of Los Angeles. In other videos, campy game-show hosts introduced singers in Tagalog. The festival was co-sponsored by the organization FilAm ARTS, which connects artists and stages shows and festivals around California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Having more of these shows is really important because it solidifies our identity,\" said artist Tala Mateo, who works with FilAm ARTS. Mateo thinks an artistic identity can help the sizable Filipino-American population in Los Angeles be heard. And developing ties with the home country would also give U.S.-based Filipino-American artists an important historical reference point upon which to draw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Who we're a part of, who we're attached to, who we're related to. If we get lost in any way, shape or form, at least we can hold onto that and know we come from somewhere,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mateo believes that developing ties and understanding between the U.S. and the Philippines is a matter of survival, on both sides of the ocean. 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