A meeting in the Philippines
July 3, 2008 – 6:00 amMy neighbor just gave me this story of a true World War II women - an American nun in the jungle of the Philippines. The story goes like this.
My friend’s uncle, Tommy Dixon, was a supply officer in the Army. Toward the end of the war, one of his friends came to him with the news that his group had found a nun hiding in the jungle with a group of orphans. He suggested that since Tommy was a Catholic, maybe he could go see her.
After their initial comments with one another, the conversation went like this.
“Where are you from, Sister?” “Pennsylvania. How about you?”
“Pennsylvania, too.”
“And from what city?” she asked.
“Philadelphia.”
“And what parish?”
“MBS” (Most Blessed Sacrament).
“What is your name?
“Tommy Dixon.”
“You’re not Dixie’s brother, are you?”
Indeed he was. Dixie and the nun were high school friends. Asked if there was anything he could bring the nun, she requested, among other things, a big salami. He granted her request, and for years thereafter, when she returned to the States every five years, Tommy lunched with her, taking her a salami.
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