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"1898, THE PHILIPPINES......HARDLY HAD THE GUNS FALLEN SILENT BETWEEN THE SPANISH AND AMERICAN FORCES, THE NEW AND EXPANDING MIGHT OF THE UNITED STATES IS SUDDENLY CONFRONTED WITH THE NATIONALIST TROOPS OF A NASCENT FILIPINO REPUBLIC. HERE WAS THE GLORIOUS AND TRAGIC COLLISION BETWEEN THE DESTINY OF TWO PEOPLES, CULIMINATING INTO ONE OF THE MOST FORGOTTEN WARS IN U.S. MILITARY HISTORY......THE PHILIPPINE-AMERICAN WAR." |
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"RE-LIVE The HISTORY, REMEMBER the VALOR of the men and women who had held such prominence at the dawn of the PACIFIC CENTURY!.....of the Americans there was DEWEY, FUNSTON, MACARTHUR, LAWTON....and of the side of the young Philippine Republic are the even lesser known but valiant ANTONIO LUNA, LLANERA, MALVAR, and RICARTE." |
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"DECEMBER 8,1941, AFTER THE SURPRISE ATTACK OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE ON THE U.S. NAVAL FLEET AT PEARL HARBOR, WAR WAS BROUGHT TO THE PHILIPPINES. WHAT FOLLOWED WAS THE SUBSEQUENT DESTRUCTION OF ALL AIR AND GROUND DEFENSES AND THE FLOOD OF JAPANESE OCCUPATION TROOPS. PRACTICALLY THE ONLY NATION IN ASIA TO HOLD OFF THE JAPANESE INVASION FOR FOUR MONTHS, THE PHILIPPINES BECAME THE MAIN BATTLEGROUND OF AMERICAN, JAPANESE AND FILIPINO TROOPS. IN SPITE OF FORCED CAPITULATION BY THE U.S.A.F.F.E., (UNITED STATES ARMY FORCES OF THE FAR EAST),THE WAR WAS CONTINUED BY THE GUERILLA FORCES UNTIL GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR'S RETURN AND LIBERATION BY VALIANT AMERICAN TROOPS." |
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"REMEMBER THE VALIANT DEFENSE OF THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS BY THE HEROISM OF THE PHILIPPINE SCOUTS, PHILIPPINE COMMOWEALTH ARMY AND THE GUERILLA FORCES. COMMEMORATE THE FIERCE AND BLOODY DEFENSE OF BATAAN, CORREGIDOR AND LEYTE. RECALL THE AMERICAN LEGENDS AS MACARTHUR, WAINWRIGHT, AND KING AND THE FIGHTING FILIPINOS AS CAPINPIN, VILLAMOR AND CALUGAS." |
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