Coming home from our overnight vacation in Morong, we passed some markers dedicated to the war heroes that perished in the infamous Bataan Death March. In April 1942, the Japanese forced some 80,000 Philippine and American soldiers to march from Mariveles in Bataan to Camp O'Donnell in Capas, Tarlac via San Fernando, Pampanga. Around 10,000 perished. This atrocity was later adjudged to be a Japanese war crime.
In the words of my uncle Jay, "the blood-drenched crosses were strewn all over the place, a mute testimony to the orgy of horrors committed by the yellow sons of Nippon..."
It is good to revisit the past, so the sins may never be repeated.
Rest in peace, defenders of our shores.
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