Katipunan research info

[VeeVee]

Posting this research info for Perry. Thanks for the info Perry!

[legionnaire]

NICE work Perry! Great reference info, Thanks for posting Vic.

Philip

[battara]

You have both done us all a wonderful service!

[renesaure]

btw, were these being studied also at the Philippine Military Academy?

[VeeVee]

Not sure. They surely study military history but I'm not sure if they delve on these esoteric details. I'm sure it's the strategy, leadership, logistics, and political aspects of history that they takeup in class. But I don't know for sure, best to ask a PMA grad if you chance upon one.

[nemesis]

FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW ME, WELL.......HELLO FOR THE FIRST

TIME FROM GREECE!!!

FOR OTHERS WHO DO (NAMELY PHILIP) WELL....HELLO GENERALY!!!

MY NAME IS THEODORE MAVRIDOPOULOS AND I'M A 37 YEARS OLD GREEK

REENACTOR. AS I'VE ALREADY SAID TO OUR FRIEND PHILIP BEFORE, I DID VISITED

THE PHILIPPINES IN OLDER DAYS AND I DO LOVE YOUR COUNTRY AND IT'S HISTORY.

AFTER ALL MY FIRST GIRLFRIEND WAS PHILIPPINA (I'M NOW MARRIED TO AN

INDONESIAN LADY HOWEVER!!!) AND THE MAN WHO FIRST BUILDED ADAMSON

UNIVERSITY IN MANILA WAS A DEAR FRIEND TO MY UNCLE (HE WAS A GREEK GUY

NAMED ADAMOPOULOS HENCE COMES ADAMSON!!!). AS YOU CAN SEE THERE ARE LOTS

OF THINGS THAT LINKS ME UP TO YOUR COUNTRY. I JUST DROPED BY TO

CONGRATULATE YOU ALL FOR A VERY WONDERFUL JOB YOU'RE DOING FOR

YOUR COUNTRY'S HISTORY. INDEED YOU MAKE ME FEEL PROUD ON YOUR

BEHALF. THOSE OF YOU WHO WOULD LIKE TO CONTACT ME YOU MAY

REACH ME AT:

[e-mail]


I DO NEED TO SPEAK TO SOME OF YOU REGARDING THE SPANISH / AMERICAN

WAR AND PHILIPPINO INSURECTION AS I'M CURRENTLY TRYING TO CREATE

MY OWN UNIFORM IMPRESSION OF A U.S. / SPANISH ARMY OF THAT TIME,

AND WHY NOT, THAT OF A PHLIPPINO TOO. ANY INFOS WOULD BE MOST

APPRECIATED. MARAMING SALAMAT.

GOODBYE MY FRIENDS.



THEO

[faustino]

Hello Theo, nice to meet you, and welcome to the forum

We have accomplished so many things is just a few short years, but we have a long long way to go yet
Do you have any plans on visiting the Philippines again someday?

I am dreaming of a large reenactment someday where people from all over the world would gather in Manila (or someplace in the Phils.) for one big event with everything.... 2 or 3 or 12 battles ;D large encampments, parties, grand ball, fiesta, everything

one of these days

one of these days

[nemesis]

Hello again guys. Thanks for the warm welcoming. Well....indeed i would like to

return back there again. I already miss Quezon city a lot. Last time when I left

the place fightings broke out between pro-Aquino troops and pro-Teskon troops!!!

It was the last coop against Aquino and if I would stay one more week I could

caught up in the cross fire. But then again I shouldn't play the wise guy. We

the Greeks had our share in coops. Our last one however took place back in

1967. Regarding your dream........ that i would like to see and I don't know what?!!!!

Indeed it would be pretty original for something like that to take place at Manila.

After all - and from what ever I remember - you guys do have wide spread open

areas over there that could favor such an event so why not? Why not indeed?

I look forward to such endeavor on your behalf, and something tells me that

you do have both the stamina as well as the spirit to go ahead with it. So.................

.....GO FOR BROKE YOU GUYS!!!!



THEO

[insurrectomad]

Well Fuastino, An opportunity opens this year as we have gained so much publicity to ward,s the end of 2010. We now have found favour in the armed forces and have their support. But it is in the universities where we must gain support and recruitment. If we can put in place before the end of this year, the proposed leasing of blank firing weapons under the army supervision and Honourable Membership to the army reservists, we then can think of re-enacting some "battles" at last. Febuary is fast approaching and we must not let the grass grow beneath our feet! David

[79thfoot]

Hi David,

I'm really glad to hear that BNK is making real inroads there - and I'm real envious as well! That's always been a dream of mine to have - as an option for CAT/ROTC - students be formed into reenactment units that would function under AFP guidance and have generally similar instruction as regular cadets have, but would also specialize in historical reenactments. Then as a 'graduation exercise' the cadets would be formed with other cadets and have reenactment battles.

I heartily commend the experience of reenacting to the Filipino youth as a better way of understanding our history - not as a boring, sleep-worthy, dead thing taught only in the classroom but as a living, breathing, terrifying and exhilirating experience on the field. One of my most treasured life experiences was joining the Spanish American war reenactors at Fort MacArthur in 2008 where I was kitted out in my Guardia Civil Veterana uniform and I had the opportunity to fight on the Spanish side much like the Filipino conscripts of 1896 and 1898 would have done - hardly knowing how to load their Remington rifles, half-terrified by the gunfire (and if you really get into it you can almost imagine the bullets streaking toward you) but determined to do your duty and finally "dying heroically" with my bolo raised in a hail of Krag rifle fire. I treasure it because it's the closest I've thus far come to really experiencing history - my history, my country's history - and I think that more Filipino youths would learn to appreciate history more if they had that experience.

Cheers guys,
Tom