Word: rizal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like plate mail. With civilization had come the teaching missionary priest, the gold, pearl and hemp trade, running wars between the Dutch and Spanish, the British and Spanish, and the inexorable organization and pacification of the innocent bystanders. By 1892, when the brilliant and visionary mestizo, Dr. José Rizal, began his ideological revolt against the friars and tottering Spain, Spain had given his countrymen the homogeneity to make a common fight...
...Rizal was executed for his ardor in 1896-a Spanish act that fixed Rizal, and freedom, forever in the Filipino mind. The same year, Spain was chastising others of its colonists-the Cubans. In the U.S., Manifest Destiny, indignant over the spectacle of Spanish soldiers hunting defenseless, freedom-loving Cubans in the hills, glowered and tugged. In Congress and in the torch-lighted squares, war fever mounted...
...moved down Avenue Rizal civilians mobbed our vehicles, cheering and offering us portions of their meager food supplies. The women were weeping while the men saluted and children squealed in delight. But the Santo Tomas reception was even more delirious...
...Bataan peninsula, rich young Andres Soriano, onetime unofficial pro-Fascist representative of General Francisco Franco in Manila, organized Filipino volunteers into a "Rizal Legion" (named for the national patriot, Jose Rizal) for jungle counter-sniping at the Japanese. > "Increasingly effective" throughout other parts of the Philippines was the F.F.F. (Fight for Freedom), a secret band whose terrorizing of Japanese, as well as of native traitors and informers, recalled the dreaded KKK (Kataas-tassan Kaga-lang-galang Katipunan ng Bayan) which opposed Spanish rule...
...educated Tagalogs and Visayans-for all the Filipinos who learn English, admire U.S. ways, vote for President Quezon, argue about independence, revere the memory of José Rizal, whose pulse was normal as he faced a Spanish firing squad-for these the Japanese conquest was the unbelievable crisis of their destiny as a people. For the individual it meant facing a situation for which nothing in his education or history had prepared...