2. 2010

Manila, Philippines

Visiting with friends and seeing the sights in one of the world's biggest cities.
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Gardens spring up among the crosses at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial
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Gardens spring up among the crosses at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial

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  • Our second day in Manila marked my first photo this visit. Tracy and Alex sit down for a quick lunch after church, before we rush back downtown to avoid the afternoon traffic.
  • Tracy checks over some photos of various friends and relatives, including my own father who visited the Philippines almost a year prior.
  • After church, the kids each get a small bag of candy, and they're stoked!
  • This Sunday's service is the last for this church building; the church is moving on to another location and the place is set for demolition this week.
  • A little American money goes a long way in some places in the world.
  • Shooting from a moving tricycle captures this trio. Raising two pretty girls in a city like Manila is more than enough to permanently cement a dark worried look on any father's face.
  • The view is limited inside a tricycle, but the experience necessitates capturing it in some manner. Now if only one could share the smells and sounds as well!
  • A panoramic view from inside a moving tricycle on the streets of Manila, Philippines.
  • Scheduled repairs to one of the Search and Rescue vehicles are performed on the side of the street by a mechanic without a toolbox.
  • A local cat with slightly less than a whole tail perches on a brick wall alongside the road.
  • Local jeepneys are almost without exception decorated flamboyantly with as many eye-catching implements as possible.
  • Tools of the trade for a mechanic swapping out a tie rod or two on the streets of Manila.
  • A visit to the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial shows us a bit of an idea how many people died in the defense of the Philippines alone during WWII.
  • A towering monument looks down on the memorial at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial.
  • Thousands of names line the walls of the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, commemorating the lives spent in defense of the Philippines in WWII.
  • The names of dead soldiers go on and on, provoking one to wonder about the causes of war.
  • Gardens spring up among the crosses at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial
  • Lines of crosses seem to go on forever as a memory of those who lost their lives in defense of the Philippines during WWII.
  • How do you count lives lost?
  • Lines of crosses seem to go on forever as a memory of those who lost their lives in defense of the Philippines during WWII.
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