{"id":191894,"date":"2015-02-17T04:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T18:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=191894"},"modified":"2015-02-17T04:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T18:00:31","slug":"massacre-atate-wwii-resistance-fighter-releases-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/massacre-atate-wwii-resistance-fighter-releases-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Massacre at At\u00e5te\u2019: WWII resistance fighter releases memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Massacre.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-191895\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Massacre-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Massacre\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Jose M. Torres of Malesso\u2019 will have a book launch and signing for his new World War II memoir, The Massacre at At\u00e5te, on Feb. 24, 2015, from 6:30pm to 8:30pm, at the University of Guam CLASS Lecture Hall. The memoir is published by the Micronesia Area Research Center with the Chamorro Studies Program. The event is free and open to the public, and refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p>The book launch will include a reading from the book and presentation by Torres as well as a panel discussion with the author, UOG president Dr. Robert Underwood, and Chamorro Studies program director Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua. The Massacre at At\u00e5te will be available for purchase, and the author will be available to sign copies and meet with the public.<\/p>\n<p>Underwood wrote the introduction to the memoir, and Bevacqua wrote a scholarly essay on the historic import of the uprising at At\u00e5te, which is included with the memoir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the memoir<\/strong><br \/>\nJose M. Torres was part of an uprising against the Japanese occupiers in the closing days of World War II, with American bombs dropping around the island and Chamorros being herded into concentration camps. The Japanese had committed two brutal massacres in the southern village of Malesso\u2019 (Merizo), killing 46 Chamorro men and women at the sites of Tinta and Faha.<\/p>\n<p>Hearing of the threat of yet another massacre, Jose \u201cTonko\u201d Reyes organized an uprising of men from the village.\u00a0 Although very young, Torres joined the group also. In broad daylight, these Mighty Men of Malesso\u2019, with almost no weapons except one rifle, launched a brave attack on the Japanese occupiers, killing most of them in personal combat.\u00a0 They liberated themselves and their families and village.<\/p>\n<p>A group of six, including Torres, sailed to find help and discovered a U.S. fleet on the western coast. They provided military intelligence on Japanese defenses and reported on the situation of the Chamorro people.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a groundbreaking memoir of a young man during war time, caught up in one of the most exciting and\u2014until now\u2014largely forgotten moments in Guam\u2019s World War II history. <em><strong>(UOG)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose M. Torres of Malesso\u2019 will have a book launch and signing for his new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":191895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2070,2071,2072,364],"class_list":["post-191894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-chamorro-studies","tag-jose-tonko-reyes","tag-michael-lujan-bevacqua","tag-wwii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}