I HAVE often wondered why and how the month of February became fortuitously the month of choice for watershed moments or turning points in Philippine history.
First of 3 partsThe great American bargain: McKinley paid Spain $20 million for the Philippines, and bought a $300 million war. – Onofre D.
Indeed, the US annexation of the Philippines in 1898 wrought a radical change also in world affairs, because on the back of our first Philippine Republic, America planted the flag of its American empire. With this epic change in US policy, the world would never be the same again, as it would soon discover in two world wars, in Korea, in Vietnam and the Middle East.In each February date, time would divide between before and after the event.
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