A YouTube video uploaded by Kapatid Avinidz falsely claimed that Marcos Sr. led a guerilla unit called “Ang mga Maharlika” against Japanese soldiers during World War II.
The Philippines must also learn from the lessons of World War II to avoid another global conflict, which was predicted to happen in the second half of the 21st century.
In 1945, Manila was the most destroyed city after Warsaw as the US battled the Japanese to liberate the Philippines. That should not happen again. The nuclear annihilation that the UN secretary-general had warned must be avoided. It should not be in the Philippines.
Palace spokesman Harry Roque urged Filipinos to reflect on the United Nations Charter of 1945 in remembrance of the historic occasion.
On August 6, at 8:15 a.m, seventy-five years ago, the first nuclear bomb was detonated over Hiroshima, an industrial port city and a key military target, by an American B-29 Superfortress turbo-prop bomber plane named “Enola Gay,” at the last stage of the Pacific theater during the Second World War.