Ode to the World War II Memorial at St Paul University QC: A Tribute to the Filipino heroes of WWII

Ode to the World War II Memorial at St Paul University QC: A Tribute to the Filipino heroes of WWII

The Japanese occupation of the Philippines took place between 1942 and 1945, when Imperial Japan occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II. The invasion of the Philippines started on 8 December 1941, ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor. About 43,000 Japanese troops began the main invasion of Luzon; American and Filipino troops began to amass on Bataan. It was also in December 1945 when Japanese Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita was sentenced to death for war crimes. 

Dr Abe V Rotor

World War II memorial at St Paul University QC

Take me to the hallowed ground of war victims and victors
From early man to biblical times to Afghanistan
In the caves of Lascaux and in the arena of the gladiators,
To Alexander's campaign to Napoleon's last stand.

Take me to Auschwitz camp to Iwo Jima and to Bataan
To Flanders Field where crosses lie row by row
That the youth may know Armageddon's meaning to man
For a better world to live in tomorrow. ~

NOTE: SPU-QC, then a novitiate of the St Paul of Chartres sisters, served as a Japanese camp during WWII.  Before it was liberated in 1945, the main building was torched to ruins. It was later rebuilt to house the St Paul College, now a university.