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The making, unmaking and remaking of Marcos as a hero
The Philippines is moving to anoint rapacious dictator Ferdinand Marcos a hero. First by having his portrait restored in the armed forces Hall of Heroes and very soon getting his body transferred to the Libingan ng mga Bayani, the U.S. equivalent of the Arlington National Cemetery reserved for war heroes. The armed forces historian […]
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In an Italian restaurant, veteran keeps memory of Los Banos Rescue alive
By Cristina DC Pastor The 1945 Rescue at Los Banos is a little-known POW mission in Philippine-American history. It is not nearly as religiously memorialized as the January 30, 1945 Cabanatuan Raid, which freed about 500 Allied soldiers and survivors of the Bataan Death March. But like Cabanatuan, Los Banos was harrowing as it was […]
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When Manila manufactured its own Elizabeth Taylor
By Tony Joaquin The Philippines in the 1950s exuded arts and culture. Perhaps, it was because the country had just begun to slowly recover from a horrible world war barely five years before. In Manila there were stage presentations galore in schools as well as by private drama groups such as the Barangay Theatre Guild […]
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‘Took me 50 years to read all of Carlos Bulosan’s books’
By Cristina DC Pastor; TF photo R Sonny Sampayan shares vicarious memories of celebrated Asian American writer Carlos Bulosan, the granduncle he never met. TF: Exactly how are you related to Carlos Bulosan? RSS: My paternal grandfather Marcos Sampayan and Carlos’ mother Meteria are siblings. So it’s Carlos Sampayan Bulosan. TF: And you never met. […]