Biography
Vicente Blaz was born on February 14, 1928 in Guam. He was living on the island during the three years of Japanese occupation during World War II. During the occupation he was forced to work in labor battalions building aviation fields and planting rice.
In 1947, he was awarded a scholarship to the University of Notre Dame.
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