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TALES OF WAR The author (center) with Hirohide Yano & his son It was a typical cold January  morning  when I observed two Japanese  gentlemen  quietly sitting in the  dining  area  of my Duyan House bed and breakfast at the Sinagtala Farm Resort in Orani, Bataan. One was a bespectacled distinguished looking elderly man and the other a young man that I immediately surmised to be the son. As is my habit, I approached their table and asked where they were from and what brought them to the mountains of Orani, Bataan. The elderly gentlemen(Hirohide Yano) I leanrt is presently  the president of a regional bank in Japan which coincidentally is a correspondent bank of Philippine National Bank. His bank is used by the Filipinos in his community to send remittances to the Philippines.  After the usual exchange of names and handshakes, I learned that Hirohide  and his son were in the mountains of Orani to visit the site where the father of Hirohide, who was a lieutena