Ricardo san juan counted 19 women and 27 children among them. He saw a soldier plunge his bayonet into the chest of his five year old son, crescentio. The same soldier who had tried to cut off his head ran his blade through the belly of san juan's pregnant wife. With the children littered on the ground dead, the japanese pounced on the mothers with blood soaked bayonets.
When do spirit, tenacity, resilience and bravery cross into madness? When cities are incinerated? When suicide attacks become the norm? When atomic weapons are used? Japan's leaders test the limits of national endurance in the war's last year.