IMUS, CAVITE—The National Historical Institute has decided to make this town’s Wagayway Festival one of the centerpiece events in the 111th anniversary celebration of the proclamation of Philippine Independence.
The move, according to town officials, will allow the municipality to claim its rightful place in the country’s history.
President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is expected to attend the event as she is scheduled to preside over the groundbreaking ceremonies for the planned construction of a monument that would commemorate the Battle of Alapan.
The town launched the festival last year in its bid to spread awareness of the significance of the Philippine flag and to promote and renew the nationalistic fervor among Filipinos.
Mayor Manny Maliksi said the other objective of the weeklong festival is to make people aware of the events that led to the first waving of the national flag.
Maliksi said that contrary to what most people know, it was in Imus, and not in Kawit, Cavite, where the country’s flag was first displayed and unfurled.
He said it was first waved on May 28, 1898 at the epic Battle of Alapan, after the local revolutionaries won against the Spanish colonial forces.
www.inquirer.net
05/22/2009
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