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MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES

[ ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 358, March 18, 1974 ]

CREATING AN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO TAKE CHARGE OF THE PLANNING AND EXECUTION OF COMMEMORATIVE ACTIVITIES FOR THE 32ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE FALL OF BATAAN AND THE FALL OF CORREGIDOR

WHEREAS, the Fall of Bataan and the Fall of Corregidor are historic milestone in our nationhood;

WHEREAS, it is deemed fitting and proper to commemorate these historic events with appropriate activities and/or ceremonies in order to impress our people as well as the rest of the world of the efforts and sacrifices of those who fought and died during the crucial struggle for freedom and democracy, and of the transcending significance of such struggle in our national undertakings and aspirations;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, FERDINAND E. MARCOS, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby constitute and create an Executive Committee to formulate plans and devise ways and means for the successful execution of appropriate activities and/or ceremonies for the commemoration of the 32nd anniversary of the Fall of Bataan and the Fall of Corregidor.

The Committee shall be composed of the following:

Undersecretary Manuel Q. Salientes – Chairman
Department of National Defense

Maj. Gen. Fabian C. Ver – Co-Chairman
Presidential Security Command

Atty. Juan L. Gacad – Vice Chairman
Philippine Veterans Affairs Office

Governor Efren M. Pascual – Member
Province of Bataan

Governor Dominador Camerino – Member
Province of Cavite

Maj. Gen. Rafael G. Zagala – Member
Philippine Army

Rear Adm. Hilario M. Ruiz – Member
Philippine Navy

Director Jose Clemente – Member
Department of Tourism

Engr. Felix C. Codilla – Member
Department of Public Works

Engr. Delfin Bacho – Member
Veterans Federation of the Philippines

Professor Jorge L. Revilla – Member
Students Assistance Committee

Brig. Gen. Teodorico P. Almuete (Ret) – Member
Phil. Veterans Assistance Commission

Colonel Antonio S. Vinluan (Ret) – Member
Defenders of Bataan & Corregidor

Colonel Manuel A. Acosta (Ret) – Member/Secretary
Military Memorials Division, PVAO

The Committee is empowered to call upon any department, bureau, office, agency or instrumentality of the government for such assistance as it may need, and to create such committee, sub-committee or staffs as may be necessary.

Done in the City of Manila, this 18th day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-four.

(Sgd.) FERDINAND E. MARCOS
President

Republic of the Philippines

By the President:

(Sgd.) ALEJANDRO MELCHOR
Executive Secretary

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