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- 235 The Forgotten War Part 24by Jeff Westfall on May 18, 2023 at 10:10 pm
Remember the words of Voltaire who said "anyone who can convince you of absurdities can get you to commit atrocities."
- 234 The Forgotten War Part 23by Jeff Westfall on May 10, 2023 at 6:50 pm
The Pulahans arose from a specific cauldron of local grievances, traditional values, and foreign interference that so often gives rise to millennial movements.
- The Forgotten War Part 22by Jeff Westfall on April 28, 2023 at 8:17 pm
The story of the Pulahan War is a sad tale of exploitation visited on the poorest of the poor Filipinos, leading them down the rabbit hole of fanaticism .
- The Forgotten War Part 21by Jeff Westfall on December 23, 2022 at 12:29 am
The stories of these six regiments extend beyond the war in the Philippines.
- The Forgotten War Part 20by Jeff Westfall on December 13, 2022 at 10:33 pm
"I want to tell you that we are not bandits as the Americans have accused. but members of the revolutionary force that defended our mother country, the Philippines!"
- The Forgotten War Part 19by Jeff Westfall on November 28, 2022 at 11:28 pm
On May 6,1903, Makario Sakay proclaimed himself El Presidente Supremo of the "Tagolog Republic of the Philippines."
- The Forgotten War Part 18by Jeff Westfall on September 25, 2021 at 2:22 pm
The very idea of arming Filipinos and turning them loose in the countryside was utterly abhorrent to the American military brass.
- 228 The Forgotten War Part 17by Jeff Westfall on April 27, 2021 at 9:35 pm
"These people are right and we are wrong...terribly wrong!"
- 227 The Forgotten War Part 16by Jeff Westfall on March 9, 2021 at 10:26 pm
I hold Waller's actions in Samar as reprehensible, as egregious abuses of his constitutional privileges as a a military commander.
- 226 The Forgotten War Part 15by Jeff Westfall on February 24, 2021 at 9:25 pm
In the meantime, General Smith's combined Brigade was following his orders to turn Samar into a "howling wilderness."