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From Iloilo to Sendai with Compassion

Sendai Airport CCTV capturing the tsunami engulfing its tarmac (video courtesy of Russia Today) On March 11, 2011, the world was shocked and awed again with nature's raw awesome power as Japan's Tohoku region was rattled by a magnitude 8.9 earthquake, and after that--the sea gobbled up cities, towns, farms and people -- seven meter tsunami has changed the Japanese psyche ...

La Conquista de Corregidor: The Guns and Christmas 1941

All right, all right...you may be wondering why the introduction for this article was with Felipe De Leon's Christmas Carol 'Payapang Daigdig?' Nope, its not that I'm forcing it to fit on Christmas (or this article was meant to be posted on Christmas eve). The song was made out of bombardment of Manila in 1945, when the maestro woke up ...