Matapos ang pangmamalupit ng mga Hapon sa mga nabihag na sundalo sa Bataan Death March, ano nga ba ang naging buhay ng ilan sa kanila matapos makaligtas at makalaya?
Panoorin ang ‘Sumuko na ang Bataan,’ dokumentaryo ni Mav Gonzales sa #IWitness.
Panoorin ang ‘Sumuko na ang Bataan,’ dokumentaryo ni Mav Gonzales sa #IWitness.
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00:00After a few months in a concentration camp, the prisoners were released.
00:07The Japanese said, we'll let you go as long as you don't join the resistance movement,
00:10you don't join the guerrillas.
00:11Of course, when the Filipinos were called,
00:13the first thing they do is join the resistance, join the guerrillas,
00:16and continue the fight anyway.
00:18Tejada escaped from Camp O'Donnell and returned to being a soldier.
00:24Did he tell you that you were already in the death march,
00:28you were about to die there, why did you still return to the front line?
00:33Why did he return?
00:36Because he loved his country.
00:39He wanted to continue the fight against the foreign invaders in our country.
00:45Zagala, on the other hand, joined the guerrillas.
00:50While Lim was trying to recruit the Japanese,
00:54he got sick and joined the guerrillas.
00:59He was eventually tortured for a very long time.
01:02He got really sick, and we don't know when exactly that would have happened,
01:08but he was eventually beheaded and they were thrown into a mass grave.
01:13Technically, his body was never found,
01:15which is why he would end up here on the walls of the Missing
01:19here at the Manila American Cemetery.
01:24In 1945, three years after the death march,
01:28the Americans returned as promised,
01:32and the Philippines was recovered from the Japanese.
01:46On this very March, the 80th anniversary of Manila's liberation,
01:51two of the Americans visited to fight for our independence.
01:58It was only now that they were reunited in the Philippines
02:01since World War II.
02:06Eighty years ago, I was here.
02:11Eighty years ago, I was here.
02:15And the circumstances are far different from what they are today.
02:23We came in, beautiful country here,
02:28on February 22nd, I believe it was.
02:40My life was 20 blocks north, 20 blocks south, 20 blocks east and west.
02:48Here I go, come to the Philippines,
02:52thousands of miles away from my home.
02:55It was worth it.
02:56It was worth everything which we did for the people.
03:02The world has to grow up knowing what we did in the past,
03:07hopefully for the best in the future.
03:10So that we learn and do not repeat the mistakes of the past.
03:13Yes.
03:17When he arrived in Capas, Jimmy visited his father.
03:24I'm really speechless.
03:27But I'm happy that we met again.
03:32And I'm sure that he will welcome me.
03:39Vinci hopes that one day,
03:42they will find where his grandfather was buried.
03:47General Vicente Lin,
03:50where his grandfather was buried.
03:54His name is General Vicente Lin,
03:56and he is still on the list of Wall of the Missing.
04:05They asked, why did you continue on April 9th, as a day of valor,
04:09as a day of laughter?
04:10It was a defeat.
04:11After that, Bataan Death March, a disaster.
04:13The only reason they surrendered was that
04:15they had reached the limits of human endurance.
04:18What else can you do at that point?
04:20And to me, that's why we celebrate it.
04:22It's because it's that spirit of being able to just do your duty
04:26knowing that it was a hopeless situation,
04:29and they did it anyway.
04:30That to me is what exemplifies that period of Philippine history,
04:35which is why we should never forget it.
04:37A day of valor
04:42Major General Zagala is now led by the AFP Reserve Command,
04:48the military branch that prepares the reservists
04:51in case of war or disaster.
04:54You know what your father and grandfather went through.
04:57Why?
04:59He asked.
05:02He said,
05:04Sang,
05:07there's more important things in life than our self,
05:13but to serve your cut.
05:17Do you?