Do we need a war museum?

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 05/19/2023

I have always wondered why there is no major war museum in Manila, no peace museum in a city that has often been described as the second most devastated city of World War II after Warsaw. The…

Flowers for Lolas: Accurate historical inclusion while the comfort women’s voices can still be heard

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 03/21/2023

Like other Filipina comfort women, Lola Hilaria Bustamante died still fighting without receiving justice. Lola Hilaria passed away  last Saturday, March 18, 2023  at the age of 97, 10 days after the UN Committee on the Elimination…

Flowers for Lolas: #Neverforget World War II

ATTY. DENNIS GORECHO 12/13/2022

“Never Forget” is an expression and political slogan used to urge others to remember the events surrounding a national tragedy. It was first used in relation to the damages brought  by World War II which started as a…

Protecting history

Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet 05/20/2022

Whenever I reflect on the sorry state of the country, I always remember the time my father cut me off from whining by declaring: “You don’t know what you are talking about. You think your life is…

Talisaynons revisit history with 77th Takas Sa Talisay, Kagawasan Sa Sugbo

Jewil Anne M. Tabiolo 03/26/2022

CEBU CITY, Philippines — History came to life once again during the 77th commemoration of the American landing on the shores of Talisay City that led to Cebu’s liberation from the shackles of imperial Japan. For two…

Comfort women are not prostitutes

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 03/02/2021

The portrayal of “comfort women” as willingly-paid sex workers is a misleading attempt to rewrite history and silence the victims of sexual slavery during World War II. A recent uproar began after the paper of Harvard Law School professor…

KUWENTONG KULE: Lolas/WW II women victims of sexual slavery, violence are dying without seeing justice

ATTY. DENNIS R. GORECHO 12/15/2020

The recent deaths of three World War II women victims of sexual slavery and violence are manifestations that the survivors are dying without receiving a formal apology and legal compensation from Japan. Supporters documented this year the…

One flawed hero, three scapegoats

Ramon J. Farolan - @inquirerdotnet 12/14/2020

Last week, browsing through several newspapers, I noted that there was little or no mention of the daring and devastating attack on Pearl Harbor that triggered World War II in the Pacific almost 80 years ago. In…

In photos: Blue moon photos over Bantayan Island, Cebu

Immae Lachica 11/02/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines— The Blue moon was shining brightly over the skies in Bantayan Island, Cebu, Sunday night, November 1, 2020. The Blue moon was expected to be seen all over the country on October 31, 2020…

Netizens: 7.2-magnitude quake in 2013 still fresh in our minds

Morexette Marie B. Erram 10/15/2020

CEBU CITY, Philippines — The scars of the 2013 Bohol earthquake that rocked the entire Central Visayas may have disappeared. But for some, the memories and ordeal of the tragedy remain fresh seven years later. At precisely…

‘Hanggang sa muli’: An unforgettable 4 years

outgoing US Ambassador to the Philippines, Sung Y. Kim 10/01/2020

It is with a heavy but full heart that I bid farewell to the Philippines, my home for the last four years. As I think back to my November 2016 swearing-in, I recall vividly the immense pride…

Report: Trump disparaged US war dead as ‘losers,’ ‘suckers’

Associated Press 09/04/2020

DELRAY BEACH, Florida — A new report details multiple instances of President Donald Trump making disparaging remarks about members of the U.S. military who have been captured or killed, including referring to the American war dead at…

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