A Significant Day to Remember
Freedom, just, bravery and valor are powerful words that can reflect and open someone’s heart. Those words symbolizes faith, beautiful hope, courage and words of inspiration. Indeed, there’s a rainbow and sunshine always after storm and thunders. Nothing of real worth can ever be bought. Love, friendship, honour, valour, respect. All these things have to be earned.-David Gemmell
After three months of fighting, on April 9, 1942, General
King – commander of the Philippine and American forces in Bataan, met
with General Kameichiro Nagano and after several hours of negotiations
surrendered to the Japanese forces. The Allied forces in Bataan were composed
of more than 60,000 Filipinos and 15,000 Americans. Soon after, these survivors
were forced into the infamous Death March. General Wainwright, who commanded
the Philippine and American forces in the Philippines after Douglas MacArthur
left, later wrote that the Philippine Army had been “…doomed before they
started to fight…They never had a chance to win.” They were caught half trained
and in the process of mobilizing when the Japanese invaded the
Philippines. But despite all the military errors, lack of training and
shortages, The Filipino officers and men fought gallantly. It was mainly due to
sickness, hunger and weariness that finally caused the decision to surrender.
The three-month last stand in Bataan is also credited with
costing the Japanese forces valuable time and preventing an immediate victory
across the Pacific.
As the pandemic strikes and the world was in process of resiliency, growth and development, we witnessed and continously witnessing heroes of today.
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