WWII Vet, Saved in Philippines, Returns the Gesture

After reading about the devastation wrought by Typhoon Haiyan, Edward Sorock, a Merchant Marine veteran who was nursed back to health in a hospital in the Philippines during World War II, felt he had to repay the compassion he was shown by Filipino hospital workers nearly 70 years ago.

By | | November 13, 2013
WWII veteran nursed to health in Philippines returns the gesture 70 years later (via NJ.com)

FAIR LAWN — As a merchant mariner in the Philippines near the end of World War II, Edward Sorock suffered a serious leg injury when a boom collapsed aboard the S.S. Frederick Bouchard, the Liberty ship he served on carrying ammunition to U.S. troops…

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