Their “100 Letters to our Fathers” campaign will see the group - whose members range from teenage to those in their 50s - reach out with messages of love and hope to fathers almost all of them never knew. On March 4, in honor of International Amerasian Day, a group of 60 Filipino Amerasians from the cities surrounding former bases will celebrate in a special way. ![]() When the American military left the bases in the early 1990s, these children were left behind. The majority of their mothers worked as bar girls in the area’s thriving “rest and recreation” industry, where soldiers were their regular clients. Navy and Air Force had bases in the Philippines. The daughter of an American naval pilot and a Filipino mother, Lopez is one of an estimated 52,000 “Amerasians” fathered by American military servicemen during the decades the U.S. “I would say ‘bye bye, Dad’ because the only thing I knew about my father was my dad was riding a plane,” she recalls. Clark Airbase in the Philippines, every time she heard a plane fly by. ![]() When Susie Lopez, 43, was a little girl she would run outside her home in Angeles City, near the U.S.
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