War in Corregidor

My recent trip to Corregidor taught me a lot. I learned a lot of things about how the Filipino and American troops defended Corregidor against the many months of onslaught by Japanese planes. They succumbed 5 months later after heavy bombardment and depleting ammunition, supplies and medicines. The Japanese came with new weapons and relentless pursuit (with Kamikaze and all). Of course they did take over of Corregidor. But later on, the Americans came again to retake this small tadpole shaped land. And the Americans did this within a few weeks. When the Japanese felt their defeat, they (almost all) went inside the Malinta Tunnel and killed themselves together with all their firepower. And so McArthur was able to raise the Filipino flag above Corregidor once again.

 

The Lights and Sounds show inside the Malinta Tunnel bore witness to the events during II World War. It showed the courage and forbearance of those people who tried to defend their land and freedom. The ruins were preserved as they were. Ruins of the office buildings, housing, battery crock, tunnels, the old canons, the pictures, old flags, and other souvenirs of that time. There were pictures of surrender, of pain, of the wounded, of the death march in Bataan, and so many others. All of them proof of courage but at the same time the futility and senselessness of war. Why, oh why do people go to war?