The Birth of the WAS (poem)

The Birth of the WAS
February 15, 1946

When we lived under pressure
Of the Japanese stern control
We formed an association
With the women on the role

We met, we planned, and we discussed
Matters for home improvement
We partook in the town's program
and helped in the disguised movement

We held parties among ourselves
To while dreary hours away
Inspired the girls for higher learning
Till schools come again someday

Then our brothers from the mountains
Signalled that we all go out
For the town they would attack
Heroically the japs to rout

Hiding our motives from the invaders
We obeyed them and we fled
We cared not for our losses
Our dear lives just to save

When we returned home happily
To find no Japanese on our way
We felt grateful to our beloved brothers
For driving the Nippons away

We then met and reorganized
To form the WAS outright
Our main purpose just to aid
Our soldiers in the fight

Onward then o ye sisters
Your loyal support to continue
If at the front we cannot fight
Behind line our part we must do

by Mrs. Soledad L. Grasparil
for our paper The Torch