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Veteran Keeps Foil? Made in Jap Prison3 A (VTA PE. April 15 l-'PJ — CpJ. Com ado Vigil of fiVlcn. keeping his vow to make a pilgrimage i fool lo the Chimayo alirine. knelt the Image of Santa Nino and prayed.After completing his suppli-. allcns. which caretaker Antonio Chavez said lasted almost two hours, the 23-year-old survivor of the firs* Philippines campaign le turned home by utitomcblle.Chavi'7. rope i ted the I Vigil plodjcl hnrefooLcd for the last part of hLs 32r»*milc trek.The pilgiimage to El SantUBrio a I Chimayo fulfPK'd o promise which Vigi. made during the time he was a Japanese prisoner in the Philippines. He returns to llie service May 9.iI
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Las Cruces Sun News

Las Cruces, New Mexico, US

Mon, Apr 15, 1946

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