Submitted photosTomas Paulino, a former school principal in Forest Lake, is now retired and living on Guam along with three of his six children and nine grandchildren.
Tomas Paulino has experienced war and never hopes to do it again.
That’s understandable for a native of Guam who lived through the Japanese occupation in the 1940s and now shudders to think of what may happen if North Korea carries through on threats to fire nuclear-tipped missiles at the island in the western Pacific Ocean.broadstreet.zone(48036);
A former junior high school principal in the Forest Lake School District, Paulino moved to Guam following his retirement in 1993, and three of six children have done likewise. Nine of Paulino’s 16 grandchildren also live on Guam.
Guam has come under the international spotlight in the rising tensions between the United States and North Korea as the latter nation continues to flaunt its growing military strength and long-range missile capabilities.
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