"Kill Everyone Over Ten"
"I want no prisoners. I wish you to kill and burn, the more you kill and burn the better it will please me. I want all persons killed who are capable of bearing arms in actual hostilities against the United States." General Jacob H. Smith said.
Since it was a popular belief among the Americans serving in the Philippines that native males were born with bolos in their hands, Major Littleton "Tony" Waller asked "I would like to know the limit of age to respect, sir?."
"Ten years," Smith said.
-Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903, Stuart Creighton Miller, (Yale University Press, 1982)
100 years later...
The untold story of our people's bravery and sacrifice remains buried beneath the soil where over 1 million Filipinos were killed.
Today, our children are still being robbed of their history.
Let us unearth our people's legacy of resistance and provide for our youth, what the government does not.
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