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1. Article · Jul 19, 2026 · Sen. Telo Taitague

   LETTER: What my father's clock remembers (opens the original)

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   My father kept an old brass ship’s clock for most of his life even though it no longer worked. He rarely spoke about how it came into his possession. The memories were too painful. He would only tell us the story around Liberation Day, when the memories of the war were hardest to avoid. He was about 12 years old during the Japanese occupation when a damaged ship grounded in Talo’fo’fo’ Bay. Although the Japanese had forbidden anyone from going near the wreckage, he waited until sunset, w

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