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?
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