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| ganymede09 | Jan 5 2013, 11:07 AM Post #21 |
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I read somewhere before (must be in one of the threads here or the other forum i cant remember anymore) that it was a deliberate trap set up by the Vietnamese themselves. They organized the party (vietnamese girls included) for the commander and invited all of Filipino contigent. No one volunteered to stay behind and man the post of course. And when they came back viet troops were already occupying the island. If i remember correctly, when marcos learned of the incident, a plan was hatched to retake the island but was eventually abandoned. |
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| icefrog | Jan 5 2013, 02:55 PM Post #22 |
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^ If that was true then that's more $tupid than I thought.
Edited by icefrog, Jan 5 2013, 02:56 PM.
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| ctrlaltdel | Jan 5 2013, 08:27 PM Post #23 |
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all the more a double slap on the face of the late Macoy, he must have been very livid considering it was the height of Martial Law where military alertness was supposedly at its highest level and when even Marcos enthusiasts & loyalists until now tout the military to be the best ever. quadruple slap if its true that the highly regarded Marcos Martial Law soldiers were duped by the Vietnamese into abandoning the island.. Edited by ctrlaltdel, Jan 5 2013, 08:30 PM.
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| Hong Nam | Jan 5 2013, 09:59 PM Post #24 |
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I've heard this story too. Similar lines with a few variations here and there. Do take note that these are just stories. As to what really happened, we don't really know for no official statement has been issued to the public. - Too embarrassing to be admitted? However, if you are to believe wikipedia.org then this is what is stated there:
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| icefrog | Jan 5 2013, 10:11 PM Post #25 |
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^ So, I guess this is the reason (if true) or one of the reasons why the AFP are guarded against the Vietnamese. I (and Arnie too) always wondered why there are reservations with cooperating more closely with Vietnam. This must be the reason. How about the goodwill basketball or was it soccer match that was suppose to be held last year? Did that push thru? If it didn't, this must be the reason for the reservations. LoL I wonder if India has a history of using such strategies too w/c is why there are some reservations too for closer cooperation with them? LoL. |
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| ganymede09 | Jan 5 2013, 10:22 PM Post #26 |
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google map Pugad Is. this "urban legend" is mentioned in the map link above (see entry for Pugad Is.) edit: ooops, i find this and HongNam beat me to it with a much more detailed account.
Edited by ganymede09, Jan 5 2013, 10:28 PM.
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| redcomet_m | Jan 5 2013, 10:29 PM Post #27 |
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^Unfortunately for us, the commander doesnt know the story of Troy <--that pretty much sums it up :) |
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| arnie | Jan 6 2013, 05:21 PM Post #28 |
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Nothing that I remember if my memory serves me right. You have nothing to worry. But if you occupy some part of Kashmir then you never know. We may invite you for hot and spicy curry treat with Bollywood style singing and dancing and take the land back in the dark of the night. By the way this story sounds too stup-d to be true. Edited by arnie, Jan 6 2013, 05:25 PM.
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| horizon | Jan 6 2013, 07:34 PM Post #29 |
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a foreign power successfully took a philippine occupied island without firing a shot, the worst and most shameful defeat in the history of the philippines. i recall two or three marcos loyalists/admirers in this forum who always crow that if only marcos is the president instead of pnoy, he would have resorted to force rather than diplomatic protests, generally be belligerent about the whole thing since he has "balls". yet the worst philippine debacle in the spratlys happened under his watch when he was the all-powerful dictator with the military directly under his beck & call, clearly his "balls" were mythical only when when he balked down from forcefully retaking the island even though the philippine military at the time was the best, most powerful ever under the leadership macoy, at least according to his admirers here. |
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| boxster | Jan 6 2013, 08:02 PM Post #30 |
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Horizon i agree with you on this..some people would keep on harking the goodness of martial law and how great thr marcos years but some were too young then to even remember how it is to live under a dictatorship..kulang nalang mga iba dito hukayin ang bangkay nang diktador at buhayin.. Thats how weird people are.by the way the best years of the afp was not during the marcos era.. It was in the 50s and 60s, when we were second to none in asia in terms of military strength..it was during the late 60s and early 70s when the military started deteriorating because assets were diverted to fight two insurgencies..the moro rebellion after the jabidah masacre and the cpp npa which were growing in strength thanks to marcos's and his mens abuse of power. This are the facts and not those fictions that some people keep on imagining about apo macoys time. |
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