The Cry of the Dying Medicine Man
The Biography of Major Pedro Nosa Halili
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To learned about the history of your family wasn't easy. You would learned and feel the pain of the past and heared the laughter were they where in glorious time. Tears will come out through your eyes and runs to your chiks. That's means the flow will continue but not by gravity, is by your feelings.
It feels that you were expereincing that you were on that time! Nourishing yourself with glorious time that they had then and no one could stop it. And that's how I learned writing with my feelings that connects every details of all the precious time involve. I do beieved that ny father was guiding me to every event that was happened in his life.
My parents were my guidance even though they were long gone. But their words of advice were buried all in my thought. Lingering time that passes by in my youth were all the precious time that I was with them growing up together with my sister and brother. I let them worried while I am aloft all the time. My mother rescued me all the time being a rascal on those days. And applied her first aid knowledge while I was choking after I swallow some fruit seed. She'll reprimanded me all the time that I was in trouble to be a man like my father in my younger age. She molded me of how to be tough and how to face every hindrance that blocking the way in my path. I carried her love and care in my heart up to now after she passes away in my early teens.
I do believed that I was wearing my fathers shoes just in different time. Especially settling myself with my own family on the other side of the world. I did fulfill my promised to my father that I'll be there in his last moments in life. as he requested me is his wish, "My Cry to OUR GOD ALMIGHTY to see you before I'LL DIE".
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Pedro Nosa Halili was the one they called the medicine man. But he was more than that; he was a man with principles, pride, morals, and dignity. He was a giver; he gave to the needy who would knock on his door asking for a helping hand. In The Cry of the Dying Medicine Man, author Antonio Marquez Halili offers a biography of his father, a man who stood tall for his principles and for what he knew was right.
Halili recaps his father’s life from birth in 1904 in the Philippines, a life that was full of mysteries, including how he even survived after his birth. From his formative years through university, his work as a physician, his involvement with a guerilla group in World War II, his family, and his eventual death, The Cry of the Dying Medicine Man narrates a story of successes and contributions to humankind.
With photos included, this biography shares the details of the life of a medicine man who confronted every hindrance and faced it as a man of dignity.
About the Author
O’NE was born in the suburbs of Manila and migrated to the United States in late 1976. He has worked at Denny’s Restaurant, Strand Century Lighting Co., Todd Pacific Shipyards for ten years and American Airlines for twenty-three years and has been active in a number of community organizations and raised a Master Mason, F&AM also a Shriners international. He and his wife, Brenda, live in California. Halili has five children.