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Post by cbuehler on Jul 26, 2016 1:05:57 GMT 8
With great sadness, I only recently learned of the passing of my friend Mr. Daniel Henson Dizon B.F.A. last December. I had the privilege of meeting with him and discussing his memories of WW2 on several occasions, even going out and about to various local historical locations which he remembered so well during the war, some of which are now lost to development. He experienced the war in Angeles from the beginning of the bombardment of Clark to the liberation by the 37th Division and everything in between. For those of you who may not have known of him, he was a talented and well known artist and historian from Angeles Pampanga (indeed, he was decended from the founder of the city and even Katipunan figures of the last century) and was perhaps the single greatest contributor to the identification and preservation of Kamikaze memorials and other sites in and around Angeles. In addition to his art work, he was an author of several memoirs of WW2 and a contributor to many other publications. An open, talented and generous man with his time, he always held a balanced and unbiased view of the events during the war. He is sorely missed.
CB
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Post by victor on Aug 16, 2016 1:39:57 GMT 8
Dan Dizon was my dad's classmate in UP. My dad was also a Fine Arts major back in the 1960's. He remembers Daniel Dizon as being older who already had a young family when he started his scholarship in UP. By chance in 2004, my dad and Ie ran into him and his son reenacting the Philippine Scouts at the Reading, PA WW2 Weekend Airshow here in Pennsylvania. My dad happened to be visiting us here in Pennsylvania and I took him to the airshow. His son Mario was the one who got me started in PS living history reenacting in 2004.
God bless his soul.
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