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While sailing the waters of the South of France with wife Gina on board the private yacht of our good friends, Frenchman Christian Baverey and his Filipino wife Tetta Agustin, we reminisced our years as a young journalist in the late 1950s as well as our earlier visits to Vietnam, whi
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Former Speaker of the House
We are delighted that our son, Congressman Christopher de Venecia, spearheaded the restoration of the home economics building of our old school, the Dagupan Elementary School, now West Central Elementary School, which served as the brief headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur in Dagupan in January, 1945.
The newly restored building, now called “Bahay ni MacArthur” has also been declared a cultural heritage site.
It is still an enigma where the great World War II general actually landed in the Lingayen Gulf area but we are certain he stormed ashore our hometown Dagupan as confirmed by the fact that he set up a command post in our elementary school near the church, and as a nine-year-old we actually saw him with his sunglasses.