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Post by beancent on Sept 30, 2007 14:06:26 GMT -5
Let us honor our fallen soldiers... So much for "Manifest Destiny"... Anyway those were the times. Please feel free to comment and add pics.... MALABON MALABON a dead and bloodied soldier MALABON - Notice the dead soldier on the foreground probably an officer? he's wearing a chaleco and a waistcoat. Notice the spent catridges on the ground. Dead Juramentados. The head is usually severed because it has been a strategy of the Americans to sew the head on a pig's carcass to discourage muslims. Notice the "barong"... and the cloth bands that were tied tightly around the torso to lessen blood loss. In the trenches... Notice the wounds and bullet holes. The soldier on the foreground had his face shattered. On the fields... Notice the dead soldier with a mangled arm probably caused by a high caliber round. Probably a springfield .45-70? [img src="http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd219/beancent/Filipino%20Casualties/deads3.jpg "][/img] [/img]http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd219/beancent/Filipino%20Casualties/611-4.jpg The aftermath of the Battle of Bagbag (now a part of Quezon City). They tried to hold the line... in vain. History books say that Bagbag fell because Gen. Luna wuthdrew his troops armed with Mausers in retaliation to Gen. Mascardo's insubordination... ??
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Post by beancent on Sept 24, 2007 5:02:59 GMT -5
thanks faustino. i'm looking forward to it.
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Post by beancent on Sept 21, 2007 0:55:33 GMT -5
Hey guys. I stumbled on this forum while looking for the website of Pasig Church to inquire about a "pa-misa" for my mother's 10th year death anniversary. Anyway, can you please enlighten me on Filipino fortifications during the revolution and the fil-am war? It is common knowledge that edilberto evangelista designed these during the revolution but his career was cut short by a bullet in the head and i can't find any text nor photos. thanks!
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Post by beancent on Sept 21, 2007 0:02:12 GMT -5
mabuhay! mabuti naman at mayroon pa palang umaalala sa El presidente ng Katagalugan na si Macario Sakay... Ngayong 2007 ay ginunita ang ika-100 anibersaryo ng Congreso 1907-2007(philippine Assembly Kuno), dapat din nating mabatid na ang taong 1907 din ang katapusan ng laban ng katipunan sa pagbitay kay macario sakay at lucio de vega sa bilibid.
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Post by beancent on Sept 21, 2007 0:10:41 GMT -5
salamat mga kapatid! at last my questions about handguns were answered.
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Post by beancent on Dec 12, 2007 14:07:50 GMT -5
STANDING (L to R): Benito Natividad, Lucio de Vega (hanged) SEATED (L to R): Julian "Julian Makabayan" Montalan, Francisco Carreon, El Presidente Macario Sakay (hanged) and Leon D. Villafuerte
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Post by beancent on Nov 11, 2007 1:17:41 GMT -5
he he he... maybe what butch is trying to say is that no katipunero wore the rayadillo during the first phase of the revolution and made use of their daily attire. there may be a lot of reasons for this. One is that the Katipunan is a secret society. Although it has a hierarchy, it is not militarily organized like the Republican Army of 1897. Also, imagine Katipuneros charging the Polvorin wearing rayadillos or any other Spanish regulation uniform. It would spell chaos. he he. Rayadillo's right about the rayadillo as more of a pattern than a color. It was the "style" or "uso" of those times. But, Katipuneros also wore the rayadillo during the later phases of the war. The phases of revolt are: * the katipuneros of 1896 * the revolucionarios of 1897-98 * the insurrectos of 1899-1902 *and the so-called (and forgotten) bandoleros of 1902-1907
Rayadillos or no rayadillos they fought.
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Post by beancent on Nov 10, 2007 11:21:34 GMT -5
yes that's correct. the first (and only) historically correct portrayal of bonifacio is the bronze cast sculpture of the late guillermo tolentino. the so-called "Monumento" in Caloocan. I wonder why he is always portrayed as an obrero or "anak pawis. Maybe so the masses can identify themselves with him. In fact he was an illustrado if one truly knows the meaning of the word. He may not be rich, but he was an "enlightened" Tagalog. If we'll put it in the present social context, Bonifacio can be considered a yuppie.
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Post by beancent on Jan 14, 2008 10:51:21 GMT -5
"Ring them bells..." -Bob Dylan-
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Post by beancent on Sept 23, 2007 6:33:25 GMT -5
yep. the f.e. warren air force base... actually there is a third bell. it is with the US 9th Inf stationed in SoKor.
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Post by beancent on Sept 21, 2007 0:24:37 GMT -5
by the way, we must ask the american government to return the two bells they took as "spoils of war' so they can ring and echo again in samar in commemoration of the so-called "massacre'. As a Filipino, it was a legitimate raid or encounter.
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Post by beancent on Sept 21, 2007 0:21:57 GMT -5
I wonder how they re-enact the savagery and the viciousness of balangiga... Are they throwing canned goods too just like the americans?
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Post by beancent on Sept 21, 2007 0:19:40 GMT -5
The Siege of Baler.... A Story of Miscommunication in the Absence of the Radio and Its Stubborn Spanish Defenders... If there will be a re-make of a movie about the siege this should be the title.
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Post by beancent on Jan 14, 2008 10:48:31 GMT -5
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Post by beancent on Feb 10, 2008 7:26:03 GMT -5
A Japanese in wermacht uniform captured in Normandy.
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Post by beancent on Oct 7, 2007 23:48:58 GMT -5
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Post by beancent on Oct 4, 2007 4:33:18 GMT -5
thank you gentlemen. I'll try to dig for more stuff. I'll sift through articles for photos of uniforms.
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Post by beancent on Oct 3, 2007 23:04:58 GMT -5
I want to share short column in my Philippine Free Press issue of Dec., 11, 1937... Here is a little proof of some of our countrymen who want appeasement/collaboration just like some Brits with Nazi Germany. ... also to collaborate with Benigno Ramos' Sakdalistas???!!!Also from the same issue... One lucky guy... PA unit in Lanao training on assaulting a Moro Cotta.
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Post by beancent on Jan 18, 2008 23:42:20 GMT -5
Inday (shortened to Day)is a Visayan term to call a female friend and Dong (Badong) is to a male. Bahala na = Whatever, come what may... leaving it up to God or fate. It goes with the Tagalog expression "Mamaya na" (Later) or from the Spanish "Manana"
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Post by beancent on Dec 13, 2007 4:11:39 GMT -5
Please post pics of the event. Maybe this thread will be flaming hot like the 2006 Bonifacio day thread. ;D
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