The Battle of Manila (Feb. 3-March 3, 1945), the single deadliest urban warfare fought in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater of World War II, literally annihilated the downtown area of the city and caused an estimated 100,000 noncombatant civilian deaths by ‘Sword and Fire,’ i.e., Japanese mass killings and the indiscriminate shelling of the US.”
Myles A. Garcia is a Filipino-American based in California who has published two niche books, “Secrets of the Olympic Ceremonies” and “Thirty Years Later (Catching up With the Marcos-Era Crimes).” His latest book, “Adobo, Apple Pie and Schnitzel with Noodles,” is described as “an anthology of essays on the Filipino-American experience” based on his travels and 45 years in the United States and his travels.
For the “new young old” (whom I would call the New Young Gold, in sync with Lifestyle), the challenge is how to keep fit well into the longer years which have been granted them by science and medicine.
Nearly 60 years ago, the Philippines pioneered in cultural diplomacy when a relatively greenhorn dance troupe from the Philippine Women’s University (PWU) performed at the 1958 Brussels World Fair.
How does one teach children about heritage? Dr. Nina Lim-Yuson, president of Museo Pambata, has the answer, literally at her fingertips.
My father Virgilio Sr.—Rex to his friends, Heyo to his sibings and Virgil to my mom—would have turned 95 on July 5, just as my mother would have been 91 on July 7. They were married on July 4, 1941—a few months before the outbreak of World War II.
Great teachers—like a stone thrown into a still pond—have a deep rippling effect that goes far beyond their lifetimes.
It is extremely rare that a very long article goes viral on the internet, but Alex Tizon’s “My Family’s Slave” has done just that in the past week.
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