Word: corregidor
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...From Corregidor, MacArthur ordered Leaders Quezon and Osmeña to escape to the U.S. His aide, sad-eyed Brigadier General Manuel Roxas-who was still on Bataan-was ordered by Quezon to remain behind as the head of the Philippine Government. Although Quezon later suggested that he come to the U.S., Manuel Roxas chose to stay (and was captured by the Japs on Mindanao). This decision was probably the turning point of his career. For when the first postwar elections came along, the Filipinos quite obviously preferred a man who had stayed behind to Sergio Osme...
...again, head of a government in exile 9,000 miles from home. The first news of the attack on Pearl Harbor had reached him at Baguio, the Philippine summer capital. While he was still at breakfast, Jap planes were overhead. For two months, from crowded quarters in one of Corregidor's bombproof tunnels, Quezon followed the slow squeeze of Mac-Arthur's army down the rugged peninsula of Bataan...
...come, too, to sell Manuel Roxas, and unsell the notion, widely propagated by U.S. Communists and proCommunists, that he carried a collaborationist taint from serving in a Jap puppet government. With him he brought the testimonial of General Douglas MacArthur, who said "consistently anti-Japanese . . . during . . . Bataan and Corregidor. . . . One of my most trusted and devoted officers." Then U.S. Navy Commander Charles ("Chick") Parsons gave conclusive evidence of Roxas' loyalty. He told of submarine trips he had made to contact Roxas during the Japanese occupation and to appoint him ringleader of U.S. espionage...
...weeks before Corregidor fell, 25 Aggies (led by Major General George Moore, '08) met on the Rock and answered "here" for their dead classmates. Three years later, on 1945-8 Muster Day, the survivors gathered on Corregidor with Japanese snipers still about; of the original 25, ten were dead, three missing. The living spoke up for their absent comrades, reported all present. Other musters were held in Africa and Europe...
...judgment does not come from God, it comes only from a human. I believe that some day God will pass final judgment. I am satisfied-and I know my husband is satisfied-to be buried in Yasukuni Shrine with the rest of the Japanese soldiers who fell at Corregidor...