Respect the Fallen, Capas Ascends

Capas, Tarlac is well known for a tragic pass, being a concentration camp during the times of the Death March. Most well known for the giant obelisk that pierces the sky, a chill in the surrounding air. The Day of December 10, all citizens of this municipality celebrate its founding, “Capas Day”.

Most infamously, Capas was home of Camp O’Donell, the final destination of the Death March, an event of more than 26 thousand casualties.

Forced to walk from Mariveles to Camp O’Donell without food, sleep, good water and rest, as to give tribute to the heroes who died during the Death March, a giant stone obelisk and rows upon rows of trees were put up. With the chance of becoming the second green city in Tarlac due to New Clark City, Capas celebrated Capas Day on December 10,2022, looking back to the past and

by: Kyle Garo

hoping for the future. Capas Day held contests between the many different barangays of the municipality. The first event was the Float Parade. The barangays of Capas did their best work get to decorated. Decorations were vastly diffferent. Flowers, Balloons, confetti and holy symbols. But each of the barangays did their best and each one is great, colorful and noticably full in effort. Behind us, a graveyard made by guns and tar, one that will be remembered for eternity, melancholic emotions yet tribute to heroes fallen. As the sands of time wither away the world, the Tar and Ash of Pinatubo’s eruption will stand still and unwavering like the municipality of Capas and its people.