(Originally published with an article about Balangiga in the Sunday Inquirer Magazine.)
aftermath found in other websites.
This article, with accompanying photographs of personalities
related to the Balangiga event, quotes extensively from the book The Ordeal of Samar
by Joseph L. Schott (1964). It also propagated the numerous errors found in the book.
A pro-Filipino article whose narration of the Belangiga event cited mainly from Schott's
book. Includes the famous "Kill everyone over ten" editorial cartoon in a New York newspaper.
This excerpt from the memoir of Mrs. Helen H. Taft, wife of Philippine Governor-General
William Howard Taft (later president of the United States), describes the panic
among the American officialdom in Manila in the aftermath of the Balangiga Massacre in 1901.
Was Major Littleton Waller Tazewell Waller of the US Marines
the Hero of Samar or the Butcher of Samar? The Americans
might consider him a hero. Yet he was also responsible for the
butchery in Samar in retaliation for the Balangiga Massacre.
This article by James Brooke, published in the New York Times on Dec. 1, 1997,
is about the two controversial bells in Wyoming.
Voices from the 1998 debate about the "Bells of Balangiga" in
Wyoming. There are also pictures of Jean Wall visiting the Wyoming
bells. You can hear her voice when you use Microsoft Internet Explorer.
The Catholic Bishop of Borongan, Eastern Samar, who has jurisdiction over the town of
Balangiga, appeals for support for the return of the Bells of Balangiga to where
they rightfully belong.
This American favors the return of the two famous "Bells of Balangiga," presently displayed
at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, U.S.A.
This minutes of a Rotary club meeting in Cheyenne, Wyoming summarized the speech of
an invited speaker, also an American, who opposed the return of the Bells of
Balangiga to the Philippines.
The American Legion, a group of U.S. veterans, supports a timely and equitable solution
in the final disposition of the bells of Balangiga in a Fall 1997 resolution.
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