IN PHOTOS: 75th Anniversary Of Bataan Death March Plays With High School Students In Capas, Tarlac
ADVERTISEMENTS "OUR HEROES, OUR HISTORY" By: Era Nunag PHOTOGRAPHER: Jenzel M. Macabali The Philippines will mark this year the 75th anniversary of Japan's violent conquest of the Southeast Asian nation, earmarking events that will honor survivors from Japan's atrocities and commemorate the lessons from that chapter in the two countries' history. Our countrymen, especially the youth, should not forget the Bataan Death March 75 years ago, in April 1942. This is the kind of heroism which is very difficult to find these days. The captives, mostly soldiers, began their walk from Bataan province and were later slumped into freight cars that brought them to their prison camp in Tarlac province 160 kilometers away, on Luzon Island. Historians said only around 54,000 arrived alive. The so-called "Fall of Bataan" marked Japan's successful occupation of the Philippines, which was then a territory of the United States. It happened four months after Japan first...