My wife and I had some friends over this past weekend.
They have a little boy our granddaughter’s age, so we had them over so she and their son could have a play date. They’ve been friends since they were three.
The dad is in the Army, is a few months away from retiring, and they’ve been stationed overseas, mainly in the Asian countries.
The reason I tell you all this is because they were telling us about the Juicy Girls in the Philippines. The Juicy Girls are women/prostitutes who hang around juice bars looking for GI husbands.
“Do they serve alcohol there?” I asked.
“No, just juice,” they said.
Before the soldiers arrive in the Philippines they get a warning to avoid these Juicy Girls and stay out of those juice bars. Some of the juice bars are even off limits to the military, just like the Mexican city of Juarez is to Ft. Bliss soldiers. Still, a bunch of soldiers end up ignoring these warnings, falling in love with a Juicy Girl, and marrying them and bringing them home. The main reason the soldiers did this, our friends thought, was because they were basically young kids inexperienced in the lure of the flesh.
A friend of theirs couldn’t get his Juicy Girl’s papers done so he had to leave her behind. Even when he got back to the states he continued to send her money. Five hundred bucks a month. She’d write him, “I love you and can’t wait to get married,” and then ask him for more money.
“She was a lot older than he was,” they told us. “She was no longer so juicy.”
“Yeah, she was a Dusty Girl,” I joked.
So many of these Juicy Girls get left behind that there’s a department in the Army to handle their claims and complaints. I got the impression that the GIs marry them and then leave without them when they get transferred out of the country. If any of them were pregnant, too bad.
”You know, my father was stationed in the Philippines during World War Two, and he had a girlfriend there,” I told them, then tried to legitimize our dad’s girlfriend by adding, “She was a singer.”
They laughed at that.
“They’re ALL singers!” they said.
Turns out all the Juicy Girls were singers with good voices and would sing in the various bars.
How ‘bout that?
Our dad was with the original Juicy Girl.
My brother wrote back:
"Somehow, I don't believe you about your having friends, but I might be wrong.
Which I doubt.
Reference the Juicy Girls in the Pacific Theater during World War Two, foreign women during that time of war would marry as many American soldiers as they could get their hands on, and then have their new husbands change the beneficiary on their $10,000 GI Life Insurance.
$10,000 buying power then is worth $175,000 to $190,000 today, and U.S. dollars were worth a lot more in foreign countries.
After the marriage and change of beneficiary, the women would sit, wait, and pray that the American soldiers would get killed.
Sex always has a price.”
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