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Post by batteryboy on Jul 24, 2012 0:09:16 GMT 8
Currently watching it at Channel 7. The Corregidor Historic Society is credited... Show still on going.... Highlights: - Interview and commentary by Prof. Rico Jose, UP - Interview of Filipino witness of bombardment in 1942. Also points to Japanese gun positions in Ternate. - Inteview with scrappers (not only at Drum) but also at old sunken Japanese warships in the bay area. Scrap metal is sold at P17 per kilo. - Comments of modern day Filipino living at Ternate that Drum is now a haven for scrap metal. - TV crew visits the Fort on site. Took a banca from Ternate. Banca circled around and tides were strong. They were suppose to go in but decided to abandon on first attempt. Some swells reach near top of deck! - TV crew goes back after a few weeks, weather much better. - Crew accompanied by former scrappers. Entered thru the sally port. more later...
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Post by batteryboy on Jul 24, 2012 0:29:10 GMT 8
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- Crew now inside the fort accompanied by two scrappers. - TV host looking at older plans not related to the current design of the Fort. Error alert! - Exploration inside on going. Scrappers confirm use of acetylene torches to cut iron support beams. -Now exploring top deck, Host on top of Battery Roberts and goes inside casemate. - Scrappers confirm bigger companies involved in scrapping. - Host now on top of Battery Marshall. - Host inside Battery Wilson, showing one of the 14-inchers that fell inside the turret well. - Host emphasizes neglect of the Fort. - Now showing then and now photos.
Commercial break...
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Post by batteryboy on Jul 24, 2012 0:31:40 GMT 8
cont...
Good show... Credits show Corregidor Historic Society and our very own EXO , Paul Whitman at end credits.
B-boy off to sleep...
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Post by fots2 on Jul 24, 2012 0:36:38 GMT 8
Thanks for the heads up batteryboy, I saw the last part of the show.
That lady has balls, walking on top of the 6-inch batteries etc. She is as crazy as we are. It looked to be a detailed report judging from the last 20 minutes that I saw.
Good night from here too.
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Post by The Phantom on Jul 24, 2012 2:23:48 GMT 8
Glad to hear SOMEBODY there is reporting the action of currently "Former SCRAPPERS" and their destruction of history.
"Present day SCRAPPERS' must have been on a day off during filming..............
Good job EXO...........Thanks Batteryboy for posting.
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Post by EXO on Jul 24, 2012 6:27:43 GMT 8
GMA approached me only several days ago, for "permissions" to use website materials which I granted on condition that the Society be recognized as the source. I have no idea how little or how much they used, they simply didn't tell me.
More recently they asked me to supply film footage of the fighting on Corregidor. They apologised that there weren't any Filipino library sources of such footage, and I told them that this was because the TV networks there had never developed any library collections for use in documentaries.
I declined to provide them with video.
GMA is currently bragging in the media that they are for sale at 100 billion peso. For this princely sum, the purchaser presumably gets a list of our e-mail addresses under the heading "Historical Researchers and Still Photo Library."
I am pleasantly pleased to discover, though, that there is someone there who knows enough to conceptualize and create a program featuring Fort Drum, and hope there is a backlash to call for something to be done about protecting it.
Thankyou Batteryboy and Fots for the heads up.
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Post by sherwino on Jul 24, 2012 7:31:45 GMT 8
Wow. But sad that even support beams are being scrapped. Maybe the Navy or Coast Guard should put an outpost there or nearby.
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Post by wwalker on Jul 24, 2012 9:12:46 GMT 8
Sounds like an interesting piece. I wonder if this segment is available online to look at? Although it is angering to hear of the scrapping, it may bring the right peoples attention to the matter to put an end to it. We can only hope. Its a shame to think that sites like this are disappearing one piece (or probably several) at a time.
I'm still bewildered that the Philippine government is not more concerned with the conservation of all the islands of Manila & Subic Bay, like Ft. Drum, Hughes, Wint and Frank. And of course Corregidor. Its such a vital piece of their history, as well as us here in America.
Surely there are many people in the Philippines that still care alot about these places. I would imagine there are still a number of veterans still living there (as there are here), and also the veterans children. I know there are a large amount of descendants of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor that care deeply about this story, and I would be shocked if it wasn't the same way in the Philippines. Especially considering all those that were killed in the war, both military and civilian.
WW
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Post by EXO on Jul 24, 2012 16:35:07 GMT 8
It's those people who are alleged to be allowing the scrapping. There's also allegations that there were plans to turn Drum into a maritime security base, which, IMHO, may well have resulted in (a) the general public being entirely excluded, firstly for their "safety" and thereafter because the office is military and therefore off-limits; (b) the completion of scrapping under the guise of the removal of so called "unsafe" items; (c) the creation, if we were lucky, of fibreglass replica barrels, and the gutting of the rest of everything. Sorry, but the only thing I want to see is the establishment of a Manila Bay National Park Zone which includes Corregidor.
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Post by sherwino on Jul 24, 2012 17:06:38 GMT 8
Thumbs up to that, Exo.
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