In the Philippines the celebration honoring war veterans is called Araw ng Kagitingan, or Day of Valor, a non-working holiday that is part of a long weekend in April of every year. Samat shrine in Bataan, to commemorate the heroism of the Filipinos and American troops during World War II. One of the Filipinos resisting the take-over of the Philippines by Japanese imperial forces during the Second World War (1942-1945) was the fiction-writer and literary critic Edilberto K. Tiempo (1913-Sept. 1996). Today is Veterans’ Day, Armistice Day in Great Britain. How Uncle Resting, with his wry, dry humor, would remark on some tune that his sister-in-law Auntie Ter had strummed on her homemade ukulele: “Hmmm.

Source: Philippine Star November 13, 2019 16:00 UTC