Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
THE memories of the past can come to us with feelings of foreboding frustration and a desire for justice. So it was for me when huge US warships came steaming into Subic Bay last April and May this year 2023 after many years of absence.
Memories of the previous 50 years when the US Navy occupied the huge Subic Bay naval base and Olongapo City was then a US recreation sex-land where women and child sexual exploitation was rampant. Sex bars and brothels proliferated. Then, the women and children were sold every day and night for sex for a handful of dollars to sex-starved drunken US sailors. The human trafficking of children for sexual abuse was authenticated and verified by US naval investigators.
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