Posted on 11/12/2017 4:45:49 AM PST by DFG
Return Subic Bay to the Navy? Seems like a fair trade.
Great connection! LOVE that ‘dramatization’!
Give the man his ding-a-ling-a -ling!
Give the man his ding-a-ling-a -ling!
I agree. That was my first reaction. If all he wants are some church bells then Trump should give them to him. We have bigger fish to fry.
What a great headline!
“Duerte asks Trump to give back his ding-a-ling”
“Duerte asks small favor: return my ding-a-ling”
When Corregidor fell there were 60,000 Filipino and 15,000 American soldiers there.
On the Bataan Death March an estimated 300-650 American soldiers were killed or died of other causes.
An estimated 2,500-10,000 Filipino soldiers were killed or died.
Many prisoners were able to slip away and joined guerrilla units later.
By wars end the guerrilla movement controlled 60% of the countryside.
The guerrilla units harassed the Japanese and provided valuable Intel to US military planners.
At one point guerrillas captured several ranking Japanese officers as well as documents that made it clear they were aware of the planned US landing at Mindanao as well as Japanese naval assets available.
The Japanese instituted a scorched earth policy chasing that guerrilla band. Razing villages and killing every Filipino they encountered.
The guerrillas were forced to hand over their captives to stop the bloodshed. The intel documents were smuggled aboard a US submarine allowing the landing to be changed to Letye.
By the end of the war there were 277 recognised guerrilla units with over 260,000 men who were supplied by the US by submarine or whatever they could capture from the Japanese.
The Filipino resistance joked that by wars end there wasn’t a curtain rod left in the Philippine Islands because they had been donated to be cut down and used to make bullets to fight the Japanese.
For decades after the war a Filipino soldier was chosen each month.
At morning roll call when the name Douglas MacArthur was called the chosen soldier would take one step forward, loudly announce Present In Spirit and step back into line.
Give them their bells back.
They earned it.
“..need to remind him of the Bataan Death March—”
Probably not such a good idea, given that far, far more Filipinos died in that march and subsequent imprisonment than Americans.
That was interesting...
So Bill Clinton told the Philippine government to pound sand when they asked for their bells back...
So should Trump...
When CNN run the story of how unreasonable and mean Trump is...
Kaboom...”So you are saying Bill Clinton is unreasonable and mean too”
Per the article:
“In 1904, an Army unit that was not involved in the battle brought two of the 600-pound bells captured from the church to F. E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Today they’re on display as part of a memorial at the base, which houses 150 intercontinental ballistic missiles. Due to the high level of security on the base, the memorial is closed to the public. The third bell is held at Camp Red Cloud, an Army outpost in South Korea.”
That’s a good article—thanks for posting the link. The bells are all in the hands of the US military, so giving the bells back should be physically doable. Except—the article says an Act of Congress might be required. Ugh.
HA! That is exactly what I thought of. It still cracks me up!
Given that
Send them back
But get something we want in return
Duterte is problematic
Wildly popular and is on the offensive against Islam since he’s annihilated the drugs gangs
But he’s unstable to say the least
Bells, as from Christian Churches. I can see that.
I wonder if this is something that has been negotiated in advance, since heads of state meetings generally are, and what might be on our side of the deal.
Agreed.
Trump has indeed praised his actions on this front.
I enjoy the story of Maj. Wendell Fertig, US Army Corps of Engineers, who organized one of the guerrilla groups. When Fertig’s group grew to be a formidable force, he promoted himself to Brigadier General. At the end of the war, he commanded over 20,000 guerrillas.
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