- Balangiga Massacre and Leyte Landing
Two spectacular events in Leyte-Samar history. Two victories in two different wars. Two legacies that contradict each other. Two contrasting lessons for the promotion of nationalism among Filipinos in particular and peace education and development in general. This site provides a different Filipino perspective of viewing the Balangiga Massacre and the Leyte Landing events.
http://www.geocities.com/rolborr/baleyte.html
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- The Awful Tragedy of Balangiga
Excerpt from Recollections of Full Years (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1914) by Helen Taft. Helen Taft was the wife of William Howard Taft, Governor-General of the Philippines. In her memoirs she recorded the effect the battle at Balangiga had upon American residents in Manila - form Jim Zwick's Sentenaryo Page.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/centennial/sctexts/taft_balangiga.html
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