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By Sherma E. Benosa
When we look at Bataan through the lens of history, we think of its
fall on that sad day of April 9, 1942, when more than 70,000
Filipino and American soldiers surrendered to the Japanese forces
after prolonged battles. Then, we think of the cruel Death March,
where the same soldiers were forced to march more than a hundred
kilometers from Mariveles, Bataan to Capas, Tarlac —or more aptly
to a huge number of them—to their deaths.
Defeat might have befallen our soldiers that
day. But history tells us that three years after our historic fall,
our country reclaimed victory. And more than two decades later, in
1970, a tall and proud structure rose in that very place where our
soldiers fell—the Dambana ng Kagitingan (The Shrine of Valor).
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The World Theatre Day celebration is a unique global stage to
persuade the world that we can win the war against poverty and
pollution, drugs and disunity, crime and corruption, terrorism and
tyranny, ignorance and injustice—not by compulsion but by
persuasion, not by force but by art.
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