Office of the Bishop Suffragan for Chaplaincies

The Bishop's Notebook Archive Guam   click here to go to: Archive Topical Index The Bishop's Notebook, Guam, Saipan, Western Pacific, 31 December 2003 “Near Garapan, Saipan there is a circle of red blossomed blumeria trees that sets off a court of honor for those who lost their lives during Operation Forager, June-July, 1944. That was the campaign when 5050 Marines, Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen died fighting in "24 days and nights of close and deadly ground combat" to capture the islands of Saipan and Tinian.” Read More The Bishop's Notebook, 19 July 2002, Visit to Guam “This entry is dedicated to the fine people on Guam though it will be some time before anyone on that island will see it considering that electricity will be out for another 4-5 weeks because of Typhoon Cha'taan. In the local dialect "Cha'taan" means "rainy." And it sure was. At gusts of up to 120 mph this was the surprise storm of the season.” Read More The Bishop's Notebook, 30 June 2000 “Guam is a wonderful place. A paradise, seventeen degrees or so above the equator, time is marked less by seasons and more by the last big typhoon. Even the WWII monuments scattered about the island commemorating how ill-fated Japanese landings failed to scramble up steep hillsides take a back seat to the "trees-stripped-bare" tales of the last, great storm. ” Read More