Angel Charmae

Bataan has fallen. On April 9, 1942, officials in command of Bataan – where Filipino and American forces maintained the main resistance in the war against the Japanese – formally surrendered. The Philippine-American troops on this war-ravaged and bloodstained peninsula have laid down their arms. With heads bloody but unbowed, they have yielded to the superior force and numbers of the enemy, the Japanese forces.      The Day of Valor, also known as Araw ng Kagitingan, is annually celebrated by the Filipinos nationwide on the 9th of April. The Philippines was involved in World War II from December 8, 1941, to September 2, 1945. In these roughly four years of fierce war, Bataan was the nation’s center of defense. The 9th of April, 1942, was the day Bataan fell. Every year we commemorate the bravery and heroism of the Filipinos who fought for our freedom and national pride.           Up to the present time, Filipinos commemorate the Araw ng Kagitingan as a National Memorial Day for the

  Lent, also known as Ash Wednesday, is a solemn religious celebration in the Christian liturgical year. On Ash Wednesday, a traditional solemn holiday, church priests or ministers dip their fingers in the ashes tray and spread it on the forehead of the congregation in the form of a cross. They would say, "From dust you came, and from dust you will return." Ash is made by burning palm branches on Sunday of the previous year's palm.      Lent lasts 40 days without Sunday (that is, the season is 46 days). It is essential to be 40 days. "The number 40 has always had special spiritual significance regarding preparation," says Father William Saunders of the Catholic Education Resource Center. Jesus fasted and prayed for 40 days and 40 nights in the desert before He began His public ministry (Matthew 4:2).   Easter Sunday, known as a holy week, the Christian church is meaningful. On the first day of the holy Week, I remembered Jesus's victory entries in Jesus S