Inquirer
Filipinos commemorate the Araw ng Kagitingan, every year on April 9, to honor the courage and sacrifice of the “heroic defenders of Bataan” during World War II. It marks the fall of Bataan in 1942, when more than 70,000 Filipino and American soldiers — already weakened by hunger, disease, and exhaustion — were forced to surrender to Japanese forces. For more than three months before that, troops, who mounted a defense of the peninsula, held the line as supplies dwindled. After the surrender came the Bataan Death March, when tens of thousands of prisoners of war were forced to march […]... Keep on reading: Araw ng Kagitingan: This is a tribute to heroism, resilience, sacrifice
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