{"id":1113,"date":"2014-07-08T07:29:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T12:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2014-07-08T07:29:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T12:29:14","slug":"20140704-friday-independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/?p=1113","title":{"rendered":"2014\/07\/04 — Friday — Independence Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"140704<\/a>During the night, tropical storm Neoguri passed about 150 miles southwest of Guam.\u00a0 Strong wind and heavy rain could be heard even inside our concrete roofed apartment.\u00a0 The wind was strong enough to make the seals in the window occasionally ‘buzz’. We slept in a little later than normal this morning.<\/p>\n

As a result of the passing storm, the TWR picnic at Nimitz Beach Park was moved inside.\u00a0 The Canadian couple, Phil and April, opened their home for the ‘picnic’.\u00a0 They have a large living\/dining area with a big kitchen which easily accommodated the TWR staff .<\/p>\n

The ladies prepared goodies to go with the hamburgers and hot dogs that were grilled under the carport.\u00a0 One of the delicious desserts even had a patriotic theme.\"140704<\/a>Here are a few photos of the staff enjoying a time of relaxation:<\/p>\n

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The TWR ‘girls’!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"140704<\/a>\"140704<\/a>After a good meal, we played some table games.\u00a0 Some new ones, to us, were Bananagrams — http:\/\/www.bananagrams.com\/our-games\/bananagrams<\/a> — and Bandits, a card game, which is no longer made.\u00a0 [Located one used deck on Amazon as a collectible for $65 and one used deck on Ebay for $40!]<\/p>\n

We headed home about 4 pm and, since we were within a couple miles of the east coast, decided to head that way first.\u00a0 We passed through the villages of Ipan and Talofofo.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the rain and haze did not allow for good photos.<\/p>\n

On the way back to, and about 1\/2 mile north of, our apartment, we noticed another ‘hidden’ memorial beach, Apaca Point, on the west side of Guam.<\/p>\n

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Apaca Point was another location where the Japanese had well-hidden defenses, including pill boxes and tunnels.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A Japanese tunnel at Apaca Point.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Apaca Point Island is just off Apaca Point. Usually, the Philippine Sea is very calm on the west side of Guam. Because of tropical storm Neoguri, the waves are quite spectacular today.<\/p><\/div>\n

While at Apaca Point we met a couple that were collecting shells on the beach.\u00a0 We visited with them for a while and learned that they were here to attend her mother’s funeral.\u00a0 They met while he was stationed on Guam with the US Army.\u00a0 She was a local Chamorro and they were married in 1975 at Marianas Baptist, a church about 300 yards east of our apartment.<\/p>\n

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During the night, tropical storm Neoguri passed about 150 miles southwest of Guam.\u00a0 Strong wind and heavy rain could be heard even inside our concrete roofed apartment.\u00a0 The wind was strong enough to make the seals in the window occasionally ‘buzz’. We slept in a little later than normal this morning. As a result of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guam-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcguirereport.mcguireclan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}