The
CAGAYANLifestyle TIMES Weekly de Oro
Volume 4 | No. 33 | Cagayan de Oro City | Mar. 27 - Apr. 2, 2017
Memorable Magical Moments:
Visitors laud General MacArthur Week Experience Mayors Oscar Moreno and Tinnex Jaraual pose for posterity with key players of Gen. Doglas MacArthur Week during the closing program held 17 March at VIP Hotel.
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isitors from Cagayan de Oro City’s sister city of Norfolk, Virginia, as well as those coming from outside the city in the Philippines, recently hailed the 75th Diamond Jubilee Celebration of General Douglas MacArthur’s Breakout from Corregidor to Australia via Cagayan, Misamis and Dicklum, Tankulan (Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon). Held over March 13-17, 2017 (the same dates MacArthur and his party were in Cagayan and Del Monte in 1942), the weeklong festival of events included a reenactment of MacArthur’s arrival at Macabalan Pier, Cagayan and subsequent convoy to Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon; a four-day free movie festival by an acclaimed Kagay-anon director, two World War II exhibits and four symposiums on how life was during wartime and the guerrilla resistance
Memorial Museum at the 75th anniversary commemoration of the escape of General Douglas MacArthur from Corregidor via PT Boat 41 to Cagayan de Oro then airlifted to Australia at nearby Del Monte pineapple plantation in Manolo Fortich, Bukidnon.” movement in Mindanao. “The first day was the re-enactment of this most Said Dr. Juan M. significant escape of WW Montero II, MD, FACS, II in the Pacific theater. It director of the General started with MacArthur’s Douglas MacArthur landing at the pier where Foundation and also representing MacArthur the unique scrambled egg-cap designed kiosk Memorial in Norfolk, stands in the area Virginia: “March 13, 14,15,16,17, designated as MacArthur Memorial Marker. There 2017 will be forever rests also the Norfolk etched in my series of mermaid, a gift to CdeO, MMMs--Memorable its seventh sister city.” Magic Moments. This “Along our way is now becoming to the airlift site, 60 complimentary to kilometers away, the Montero Medical MacArthur caravan Missions.” was enthusiastically “I represented the MacArthur Foundation/ greeted with hollers
by neatly dressed uniform hundreds of school children waving Philippines and U.S. flags with confetti, and, at some point, Japanese flags. That’s when I felt that time is truly a great healer.” “Another touching moment that struck me was half dozen barongclad Filipino scouts/ guerillas in their late 90s, one veteran 104 yrs. old in wheelchairs being honored at the Manolo Fortich marker reception.” Dr. Montero also remarked about the “most serendipitous happening” when he attended the presentation of 82-yr.old Ginger Hansen-Holmes from Falls Church, Virginia about her book, Guerilla Daughter. Ms. Holmes is the founder and President of the World War II American experience/PAGE 2
“I considered this image as one of the most inspiring photographs i captured during this year’s Kaamulan. There’s a story in this young man’s eyes i wanted to interpret and translate into words. Now, it make sense that “The eyes are the window of the soul”. “If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how very different our ideals of beauty would be”.” photo by clement dampal
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