I just finished Chapter 24. Up until now, I thought that the book had reached its pinnacle of obstacles and overall exhilaration. I was mind-blown with the gliders discrete importance as a tool of the Military. Haha, I thought it was amazing that that's what they are going to use!! Love the picture, it looks so... advanced...Can't wait until they get rescued!
Okay, I must admit, I strongly admire Walter's anthropologic observations. He has insightful conclusions about the natives racially, culturally, and religiously. Walter is redeeming himself as a character in my mind and is growing as a major component of the appeal of the story and the success of the mission.
Also, pictures add so much authenticity to the book! I love visual representations of words and the pictures made the words so much more enjoyable. What do you think is the most interesting aspect of the story? Though, Questions, Oppositions? Enjoy reading!!

So as I was reading the chapter about the Filipino soldiers, I remembered hearing my dad say that my Grandpa had been in WWII in the Philippines. I asked him about this again and turns out he was a guerrilla soldier! I also asked one of my aunts about it and her late husband was also a guerrilla soldier. When I asked them if they had ever heard of the story of the rescue mission of Shangri-La, they both had no previous knowledge about it. The only thing they were familiar with that has been mentioned in the book was the name Douglas MacArthur, the American General and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army at the time. Anyways, I think it's pretty cool that my grandpa and uncle were guerrilla soldiers, so I thought I'd share this with you guys:) Happy Reading! Hal-loak-nak!

Hey guys what page should we read to exactly? I'm on page 195 right now...

Should have posted this a little earlier... But check out the footage!!! Wonder where the rest is...
http://youtu.be/qM6cW8ylzUQ

I have to say that reading about Walter (the paraptrooper) was agrivating because i felt his annoyance with being out of the action. After having his father fighting in the army and growing up in the philipines with this same profession as his goal, it must be terrible being stranded on Hollandia with nothing to do. Its good he gets to drop into the Baliem valley to help save MAggie McCollom and Decker, but it is still not the kind of action that he had always wished for. I hope that later in his life during the war he gets the chance to fight like he wants to.