Explanation:
This picture, taken by me at home, features a poster that made its rounds during the brief Japanese occupation in the Philippines during World War 2. In it, a Filipino man holds the Philippine flag in one hand, and a grenade in the other. It was likely a poster my grandmother, one of the first woman journalists in the Philippines, would have seen in one of Manila’s underground districts during the war. She was the kind of person who would not have agreed with western historians that it was the liberation of Manila, but that it was a battle of Manila, because that was a war we were forced into as colonial subjects—one that had severe repercussions in our country and in Manila, the second-most devastated city during the war.
