Kagitingan: 84 Years After Bataan, the Valor Was Never Repaid
San Francisco, California • April 2026. Araw ng Kagitingan: 84 years after Bataan, Filipino American valor, Day of Valor, Bataan Death March, Rescission Act 1946, Filipino WWII veterans, Angels of Bataan, Filipino diaspora history. HISTORY & HERITAGE • APRIL 2026 Kagitingan: 84 Years After Bataan, the Valor Was Never Repaid On April 9, 1942, Filipino and American soldiers surrendered Bataan after 99 days of heroic resistance. The march that followed was an atrocity. The 1946 Rescission Act was a betrayal. On this 84th Araw ng Kagitingan, we remember both. Filipino and American soldiers at Bataan, 1942. Their 99-day stand remains the longest and largest defense of a position in American and Philippine military history. | Photo: Public Domain / U.S. National Archives Growing up in Marikina in the early 1970s, I knew the word kagitingan before I knew its weight. My Lolo Marciano — born in Ligao, Albay, a Bicolano who had lived through the ...