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Jose Rizal Patriot Martyr of the Phillipines

The Pacific Story · December 26, 1943 · 30 min · 4,193 words

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The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific Story. In the midst of the fury of world conflict, events in the Pacific are taking on even greater importance. Here is the story of the Pacific and its people whose destiny is a stake in the Pacific War.

Here is the tale of the war in the Pacific and its meaning to us and to the generations to come. Jose Rizal, Patriot Margar of the Philippines. With the memory of Jose Rizal, Patriots and Martyr executed on Margumbayan field, December 30, 1896.

This monument is dedicated by the people of the 17 islands. I spent that last night with Jose Rizal and his self. With another priest, we gave him the Holy Succum. He was calm and sweet.

There was no trouble looking at his eyes. There was no quavert in his voice. His mother and his sister, Trinidad, came to see him here at Port St. Gjagro. During his trial, he had written a poem.

A last farewell to his people in the Filipinos, whom he loved so much. This he had placed inside a small alcohol lab. The only thing he had in his cell. He said goodbye to his mother and sister.

and then gave Pinedine the land saying quickly in English so the gods could not understand. There is something inside. Yes, Hose. Goodbye, Hose. Goodbye. Pinedine settled himself to wait for the dawn, and then his last hour of honor dripped it away.

Within my soul I reflected on the steps that had brought this extraordinary young man to this past. In his early 20s, while he was the student in Madrid, he came upon the idea of writing it.

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