Around eleven a.m. troops reached the scorched ruins of Santa Rosa College. There among the makeshift shelters made of burned timbers and corrugated sheets of metal, soldiers discovered eleven-year-old Rosalinda Andoy, whom the Japanese had bayoneted thirty-eight times. Nurses in the ruins had bandaged her wounds, including the hole in her stomach that had exposed her intestines. Rosalinda had miraculously survived twelve days. Another unlikely survivor was Rosa Calalang. Convinced she would die, nurses had summoned a priest to hear her last confession, yet she, too, had lived. Soldiers this
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