{"id":34583,"date":"2013-03-16T08:26:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T12:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=34583"},"modified":"2013-03-16T08:26:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T12:26:11","slug":"losing-the-last-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34583","title":{"rendered":"Losing the Last Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mildred Dalton Manning, the last surviving &#8220;Angel of Corregidor&#8221; passed this last week at the age of 98. She was the last of 66 nurses who had been imprisoned by the Japanese when they over ran the Philipines in 1942. From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/03\/11\/us\/mildred-dalton-manning-nurse-held-as-japanese-pow-dies-at-98.html?_r=0\">New York Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Mrs. Manning \u2014 Lt. Mildred Dalton during the war \u2014 and her fellow nurses subsisted on one or two bowls of rice a day in the last stages of their imprisonment. She lost all her teeth to lack of nutrition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been asked many times if we were mistreated or tortured,\u201d she wrote in a remembrance for her files, made available on Saturday by her son, James, who announced her death. \u201cPhysically, no. A few people might get their face slapped if they failed to bow to a Japanese guard. Humiliated, yes. We would be awakened at 2 in the morning for head count or searched for contraband.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom time to time they would round up a number of men and take them out of camp and they were never heard from again,\u201d she continued. \u201cOur internment was nothing compared to the Bataan Death March and imprisonment our soldiers went through. They were tortured and starved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mildred Jeannette Dalton was born on July 11, 1914, near Winder, Ga. She graduated from the Grady Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Atlanta, then was head nurse at Grady before entering military service.<\/p>\n<p>She was stationed at Clark Field, north of Manila, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941, and bombed the Philippines (where it was Dec. 8, across the international date line). <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mildred Dalton Manning, the last surviving &#8220;Angel of Corregidor&#8221; passed this last week at the age &hellip; <a title=\"Losing the Last Angel\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=34583\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Losing the Last Angel<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blue-skies","category-historical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}