Capas National Shrine

Capas National Shrine

The Capas National Shrine (Paggunita Sa Capas) in Capas, Tarlac, The Philippines was built and is maintained by the Philippine government as a memorial to the Filipino and American soldiers who died in Camp O'Donnell at the end of the Bataan Death March. This is an important site related to Veterans' Day in the Philippines (Araw ng Kagitingan), every 9 April, the anniversary of the surrender of the combined US and Philippine forces to the Japanese in 1942.

The area around where the Bataan Death March ended was proclaimed by President Corazon Aquino to become Capas National Shrine on 1991-12-07. The shrine encompasses 54 hectares of parkland, 35 hectares of which have been planted with rows of trees to represent each of the deceased. On 2003-04-09, a new memorial wall and obelisk was unveiled. The 70-meter obelisk towers above the grounds of the former interment camp. The obelisk is surrounded by a black marble wall engraved with the names of the Filipinos and Americans known to have died at the location. On the three large wall segments that almost encircle the obelisk, there are statistics about the total numbers of prisoners and deaths, together with poems for peace.

Nearby is a small museum and a smaller monument built by an American group calling themselves the "Battling Bastards of Bataan", honoring the American dead of the period.

External links

* [http://server.pvao.mil.ph/capas.html Capas National Shrine] page on the site of the Philippine Veterans Affairs Office.
* [http://www.pacificwrecks.com/provinces/philippines_capas.html Capas] page of the [http://www.pacificwrecks.com/ Pacific Wreck database] , which has information relating to the Capas National Shrine (with pictures).
* [http://home.pacbell.net/fbaldie/Battling_Bastards_of_Bataan.html Battling Bastards of Bataan]


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