Cassie DePeckel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It's September 1942.
Harrington sits with her fellow nurse, Edwina Todd, in a shanty behind the machine shop that's been turned into the infirmary.
Like all of the shanties, this one is small and dingy, with a dirt floor and no windows.
Harrington takes another bite of the gruel, but her teeth chomp down on something hard.
She yelps and spits the food onto the floor.
Amidst the gruel, she sees a dark object.
That's a rock!
Todd shoots her a sympathetic look.
You're lucky you didn't crack your tooth.
Harrington pushes her bowl away.
The gruel tastes terrible anyway, like wallpaper paste.
She tries concentrating on the book instead, but she's already read it twice.
She finally gives up and stares out the open door.
Between the rows of shanties, vendors sell mangoes and bananas.
Most of them stayed away from Santo Tomas for a few months, after one of them was beaten and stabbed by the guards.
But they're back now.
They have to make a living, too.
Harrington sighs.
What I wouldn't give for some fresh fruit.
We need to figure out a way to make some money.