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Showing posts with label Memorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memorials. Show all posts

Monday, September 17, 2012

Memorial Cross, Fort Santiago

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The marker besides this Memorial Cross in Fort Santiago reads:

In Memory Of The Victims At Fort Santiago

On this site lie the mortal remains of approximately 600 Filipinos. Their bodies were found inside a nearby dungeon where victims of the atrocities perpetrated by the Japanese Imperial Forces were imprisoned during the last days of February 1945.

The memory of all these unknown victims of Japanese atrocities will live forever in the hearts and minds of the Filipino People.

May their souls rest in peace.

Sunday, August 5, 2012

The Hellships Memorial

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The Hellships Memorial honors the thousands of World War II Allied prisoners of war transported under horrific conditions by their Japanese captors on "Hellships" and scattered all across Asia to work as slave laborers in factories, shipyards, and mines to support the Japanese war effort.

This memorial can be found in Subic Bay Freeport on the shoreline near Building 229.

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