Corregidor is shaped somewhat like a horizontal sperm. It is split into 4 parts: Top side (the top half of the sperm's head), Bottom side (the bottom half of the sperm's head), Middle side (the section of the tail closest to the head) and Tail side (the rest of the tail). We loaded into the tour bus, and headed towards Tail side, where there were various memorial sites.
Along the way, we stopped at Lorcha Dock, General MacArthur's launching off point on his way to Australia. Nearby was a large bronze statue of the man with a plaque inscribed "I Shall Return".
Our next stop was the Filipino Heroes Memorial, which has large bronze murals of Filipino wars throughout history. On top of a museum filled with paintings of wartime atrocities by the Japanese, was a large bronze sculpture of a Filipino with a plow in one hand and a rifle over his shoulder, depicting the fact that many Filipinos farmed by day and fought by night.
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