VFA: a Lick and a Promise?

 
By W. Scott Thompson and Oliver Geronilla*
 
“Well, because he looked like a wild boar,” the American serviceman explained his shooting of a Pinoy at Subic Bay forty years ago; was there anything more insensitive he might have said? Oh yes there is. When rich Bill Blair arrived with his wife (Deedee of the ten best [...]

Madame John Quincy Adams?

 
By W. Scott Thompson and Oliver Geronilla*
 
The sixth American president, like GMA, was the child of a previous president: John Quincy Adams was son to second president John Adams. After he lost his bid for reelection in 1828 to the populist Andrew Jackson, he bided his time looking for ways to be useful to the [...]