Independence is the time when a local country or region gains political freedom from foreign control in the sense that the local inhabitants will not pay taxes to its overlord. Filipinos celebrate this because their country escaped the tight Spanish grip for almost 333 years. To tell the truth, the Filipinos really escaped the Spanish but in turn were made subjects by the Americans from 1898 until about 1935 or 1941.
In order to achieve this independence, many lives, lives whose names are worth more than hundred well-trained infantrymen like the first leader of KKK or the Kataas-taasang Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga anak ng Bayan Andres Bonifacio. Lieutenant General Antonio Luna, Brigadier General Gregorio Del Pilar, Macario Sakay, the brains of the revolution Apolinario Mabini and many more.
During the fateful day of December 7, 1941, attack waves of Japanese Bombers from Aircraft Carriers I.J.N Kaga, I.J.N Akagi, I.J.N Soryuu and I.J.N Hiryu almost obliterated the US naval Fleet at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii which unfortunately, did not meet its main objective, The American Aircraft Carriers U.S.S Enterprise, U.S.S Yorktown and U.S.S Hornet. All most all other warships, from Destroyers to Super Dreadnoughts were either sunk, immobilized or scrapped.
The day after`, December 8, 1941, Japanese Bombers knifed their way through the Philippines. After destroying key supply cites, factories and camps, Japanese landing craft forced their way through the hostile waters, landed at Pangasinan, Manila and other smaller landings at the Visayas and Mindanao islands. So begins the most turbulent period in Philippine history, the Japanese Occupation.
From 1941-1945, the locals of the Philippines experienced a modern Dark Ages. Lives of many innocent men, women and children, were oppressed, shot, bayoneted, impaled and in worst case scenario, raped and molested.
In face if these, the Filipinos did not cooperate with the Japanese who marauded their way through the motherland while some sold their services as their spies to guerilla hideouts, many escaped and went to the mountains and joined the guerillas in hopes to disseminate the Japanese. Among the most famous were Wenceslao Vinson and Luis Taruc’s HukBaLaHap of Hukbong Bayan Laban Sa Mga Hapon.
It is not in the year 1946 when the Philippines really gained independence under Late Former President Manuel Roxas.
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As a youth, we must remember and honor our ancestors who risked their lives and fought for our independence. We must be accountable to our decisions and moves to prove that we are the hope of the nation.
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