Being surrounded by great bodies of water, the Philippines has been blessed with a bounty of edible gifts from seas and rivers, and among the locals’ favorite is the bangus or milkfish. If you’re an avid bangus-eater, then you would know that the best catch comes from Pangasinan, mainly in Dagupan C
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Former Speaker of the House Jose De Venecia Jr. Since the onslaught of the deadly COVID-19, our wife Gina and we have been staying in our Dagupan City home, which is a short walking distance from the Lingayen Gulf, where General Douglas MacArthur and, earlier, General Masaharu Homma
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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.
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