Araw ng Kagitingan

Commemorating the Bataan Death March in The Philippines:

Every year on April 9, the captured soldiers are honored on Araw ng Kagitingan ("Day of Valor"), also known as the "Bataan Day", which is a national holiday in the Philippines.

In Capas, Tarlac there is the Capas National Shrine built in the grounds surrounding Camp O'Donnell.

There is also a shrine in Bataan named Dambana ng Kagitingan ("Shrine of Valor") commemorating this event. The shrine has a colonnade that houses an altar, esplanade, and a museum. There is also a Memorial Cross built towering 92 meters in height.

Quotes:

"The Bataan Force went out as it would have wished, fighting to the end its flickering, forlorn hope. No army has done so much with so little, and nothing become it more than its last hour of trial and agony..."
- General MacArthur

"You didn't dare stop to get water. They'd bayonet you if you tried."
- Sgt. Charles Cook

"Our spirits rose. We were going to ride instead of more marching. In a few minutes we all wished we had continued to march..."
- Corporal Hubert Gater

"When they closed the doors it was like suffocating. It was hotter than a sonovabitch...Another guy behind me began to holler and scream. He couldn't breathe... I wiggled as best I could and got by the goddamn door and forced it open a little."
- Sgt. Nicholas Fryzuik

"...Everybody had dysentery. There were no toilets...people were going crazy...It was a nightmare."
- Private Robert Brown

"A Japanese officer gave us a little talk about what we could expect. He told us that Americans were dogs, and that they were going to be treated like dogs...That's when I began to realize we had big problems."
- 1st Sergeant Turner

"The Filipinos were dying like flies...their bodies went by in an endless column. It never ended. Day and night the bodies were carried to the cemetery..."
- Sgt. Forrest Knox