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Post by VeeVee on Nov 30, 2007 15:59:01 GMT -5
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Post by legionnaire on Nov 30, 2007 16:37:15 GMT -5
NICE work Perry! Great reference info, Thanks for posting Vic. Philip
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Post by battara on Jan 27, 2008 15:42:16 GMT -5
You have both done us all a wonderful service!
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Post by renesaure on Feb 9, 2008 3:05:18 GMT -5
btw, were these being studied also at the Philippine Military Academy?
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Post by VeeVee on Feb 9, 2008 11:17:34 GMT -5
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.
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Post by nemesis on Apr 6, 2008 19:40:40 GMT -5
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:
lycwien2@yahoo.com
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
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Post by faustino on Apr 6, 2008 21:34:57 GMT -5
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
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Post by nemesis on Apr 7, 2008 16:27:45 GMT -5
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
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Post by insurrectomad on Jan 22, 2011 20:40:43 GMT -5
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
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Post by 79thfoot on Feb 6, 2011 19:03:56 GMT -5
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
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