Sleep my sons, your duty done…for freedom’s light has come.
Sleep in the silent depths of the sea or in your bed of hollowed sod.
Until you hear at dawn the low clear reveille of God.
The poem is inscribed on the monument to the Pacific War Dead, in Corregidor, Philippines. The huge dome-shaped Pacific War Memorial in Corregidor resembles a vintage World War II parachute, from the parallel lines running down the domes side to a hole right at its center. The memorial shrine was funded by the Americans and it is positioned in such a way that on May 6 of every year, the high noon sun that shines directly through the hole falls right straight in the middle of a round marble altar dedicated to fallen soldiers in the last war.
Corregidor comes from the Spanish word corregir, meaning to correct. One story states that due to the Spanish system wherein all ships entering Manila Bay were required to stop and have their documents checked and corrected, the island was called Isla del Corregidor (Island of the Correction). Another version claims that the island was used a penitentiary or correctional institution by the Spanish and came to be called El...
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