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Post by EXO on Jan 29, 2024 7:12:30 GMT 8
IS CORREGIDOR SACRED OR NOT? At least 340 gamers, a defunct CFI and the Mayor of Cavite don't think so. I see in Facebook that 340 airsoft gamers have each paid 4000 peso to sign up for a profit-making enterprise so that they can visit Corregidor in February for a 24-hour airsoft tournament. (I won't link to the page. This is a critique, not a traffic-generating advertorial.) These gamers are not reenactors. They are not going for the purpose of reenactment. They are going for a modern shoot-em-up, pretend modern soldiers in a pretend modern battle. It's the parting gift of Corregidor Foundation Inc., which gave them permission as one of its final "up yours" presents marking the failure of its stewardship of the island. The CFI has been dissolved since December 31, 2023. The group's facebook ads, touting the name OP CEMETERY FALL 5, say that Mayor Denver Chua of Cavite City also approved the event. Corregidor, together with certain designated areas of Bataan, are sacred grounds declared as national shrines by President Magsaysay in 1954 with the issuance of Executive Order No. 58. Well, doesn't that set back efforts to get Corregidor back on the international tourist map as a place of reflection, history, heritage, a place of environmental protection, a place for the furtherance of Filipino spirit! Nah, stuff all that, lets have a shoot-em-up gallery. A responsible management can't come too soon.
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