Pilar, Bataan – President Aquino, together with delegates from United States and Japan, will lead Thursday’s 73rd Araw ng Kagitingan rites at the Dambana ng Kagitingan, Pilar, Bataan even as local and tourism officials here have lined up various programs in memory of the heroism of the Filipino and Americans during World War II.
Governor Abet S. Garcia and Mayor Alice Pizarro of Pilar town will lead Bataenos in welcoming the President and the foreign delegates, composed mostly of Japanese and Americans, World War II veterans and their relatives and other guests.
Organizers said that the Chief Executive will be accorded with full military honors upon arrival by officials from the Armed Forces of the Philippines led by General Gregorio Pio Catapang and shall then offer a wreath at the the shrine.
This will be followed by messages from Japanese Ambassador Kazuhide Ishikawa and United States Ambassador Philip Goldberg and the President’s keynote address.
Vicky Sandejas-Garcia, mother of the governor and wife of Rep. Enrique “Tet” Garcia, chairperson of the Bataan Tourism Foundation, Inc., said that among the programs that will highlight the Araw ng Kagitingan will be the Battle of Pockets on April 8, where the province will reenact the breath-taking and actual daring battle in this city between the Japanese and Filipino-American forces.
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