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                The Nazis were irrational about the acts and crimes they committed.  They killed millions of innocent Jewish people and others who were completely innocent.  They did not have a reason for the mass genocide they committed.  According to The United States Holocaust Museum, many Jews served their country and were decorated war heroes who were proud to live in Germany (“Nazi Camps”).  The Museum, in the same article, also states that fourteen Jewish-German people won the Noble Prize in the thirty years before the Holocaust.  The concentration camps that the Nazi regime used to kill the millions of Jewish people in their country and in other countries had significant and lasting effects on the society of the Jewish people. 

                A concentration camp is defined by The Oxford Dictionary as “A camp where non-combatants of a district are accommodated” (qtd. in “Concentration Camps”).  Beginning in 1933, the Nazis created 20,000 camps to punish and kill enemies of the state.  Dewey Browder states that although the camps were originally created to hold the Nazi’s political enemies, they were later intended solely to kill Jews and various others such as Roma, homosexuals, and people with mental and physical disabilities.  These concentration camps that Hitler and the Nazis built were used to accomplish their goal as a regime, which was to have the entire Europe be controlled by the Aryan race (“Victims”).  Life was difficult in the camps where roll call was repeated twice daily at three in the morning and five at night and there were often no rules pertaining to guards in these camps, so they beat prisoners frequently.  The events that happened in the camps were extremely brutal.  Nazis gassed up to 800 people at a time, and screams and shrieks were heard as the innocent prisoners died (Fiedman and Berenbaum).  These atrocities were hideous reminders of the Holocaust, and there were many things that led to the camps that affected the entire European Jewish population.

                Government wide boycotts, pogroms or religious persecutions, and racism led to the Holocaust and the notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany.  The events that most likely had the most effect on the beginning of the holocaust were the boycotts and pogroms of Jewish citizens.  Robert Jackson states that during two nights in November of 1938, a pogrom occurred where the SS, or Schutzstaffel, troops killed 1,500 guiltless Jews and sent 30,000 Jews to concentration camps.  These pogroms were basically the beginning of a nationwide anti-Semitism belief that left Jews in camps where they were either executed, or worked to death.   To supplement the pogroms in the hatred against the Jews, the Nazi government put boycotts on Jewish businesses, and even some people that never considered themselves Jewish were boycotted due to the Nuremburg Laws.  On the first day of these boycotts, April 1, 1933, German storm troopers painted stars of David across the windows of Jewish shops, claiming not to buy from them (“Boycott of Jewish Businesses”).    If the boycotts and pogroms were not enough, Hitler ordered that all civil jobs were strictly for Aryans.  This led to the firing of every Jewish teacher and government worker.  This nationwide prejudice of the Jewish population led to the creation of the concentration camp and ultimately left a lasting effect on the Jewish people.  Once the camps were installed, the horrible killings started, and did not end until the conclusion of Hitler’s reign. 

                The killings in the Nazi concentration camps were taken to extremes.  In his article, Flint Whitlock states, “Sparks soon arrived at the crematorium where he saw piles of emaciated corpses, stacked nearly to the ceiling.”  This only starts to describe what happened at these camps.  When prisoners first entered the camps, they were given an examination.  Those suitable for work were sent off to labor until they died, while those who weren’t were simply executed, whether it be gas chamber or firing squad.  The most painful way of death in these camps was by medical experimentation.  Dr Mengelo, the most well known doctor during the time of the holocaust, performed tests on children and killed people by lethal injection just to study their internal organs, believing that his work would give him scientific honors (Feidman and Berenbaum).  After the Jews were exterminated, their bodies were looted by the SS troops for any valuables such as gold rings and other jewelry, which if found were put into the Reichsbank under the SS account.  After the hundreds of bodies were confiscated of valuables, they were sent to the cremation center where they were cremated.  The death of millions was obvious, and, “As the rate of extermination increased, heaps of ashes accumulated by the pits, whose smoke was visible from far away.  The distinct smell of burning flesh permeated the area” (Feidman and Berenbaum).  The Jews and others were taken advantage of in the worst ways possible.  Even German businesses benefitted from this. For example, I.G. Farben used the cheap labor from the camps to produce goods for a great profit, but over 25,000 people died as a result of the overwork in the factories (Dewey Browder).  Once again, the mass murder of Jews throughout Germany and other countries left major effects on the Jewish population.  The knowledge of the camps throughout Nazi territory would also cause lasting bewilderment on the side of the people. 

                                The Nazi camps were eventually liberated by the two Allied forces at the time, the Americans and the Russians. Although this happened, millions were killed as a result, and the culture of the Jews was affected significantly. The Jewish people to this day remember these camps and look back at them in fear.  At Dachau, one of the biggest camps, some 32,000 prisoners were saved.  The American and Russian militaries did not have good enough medicine to cure diseases evident in the camps.  Realistically, only 30,000 prisoners lived.  Even though the camps were eventually shut down, they killed enough people to upset the Jewish society.

                The concentration camps created a scar in the German society that society remembers today.  This is evident when Jackson states, “You will have difficulty, as I have, to look into the faces of the defendants and believe that in this Twentieth Century human beings could inflict such sufferings as will be proved here on their own countrymen as well as upon their so-called inferior enemies.”  This anti-Semitism that the Nazis practiced has proved prevalent throughout the history of Europe, and is still much too common around the world (“Victims”).  With the Holocaust being the single biggest war crime in all of history, and the death for millions of innocent Jews, it left many parts of Europe without many Jews.  Most Jews will nowadays live in different areas of the world because their families moved or were relocated due to the Holocaust.  The killings of Jews in the camps around Germany were so severe in the later years of Hitler’s reign, in 1942, only twenty percent of the people who died in the Holocaust were dead.  Fourteen months later, an astonishing eighty percent of the people to be killed were already dead (Fiedman and Berenbaum).  In 1933 alone, the Nazi party killed over 500,000 Jewish people (Jackson).  The extensive killings and racism by Nazis against the Jews left a major effect on the Jewish society, where the fear of anti-Semitism is excessive.  The Jewish people will always hold the Nazis and the country Germany  responsible for the atrocities they did to their people.

                The society of the Jewish people was affected severely by the concentration camps used to exterminate Jews during World War II.  The concentration camps destroyed a society and culture of Jewish people throughout Germany.  The pogroms and boycotts of Jewish people were also prevalent in making a lasting effect on the society.  Even the citizens of Germany, who had no idea of the camps, created sorrow, because the Jews felt that they could have helped them.  The Jewish society could have been much less affected by these happenings if someone had taken a step forward and attempted to prevent them before they were able to kill millions of Jews. 

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Police departments are underfunded, understaffed, and undereducated, and underpaid, and still try to do their jobs.

That said let us look at some of the walls police officers face on a daily basis that affects you and me.  They face town, county and federal governments who don’t have a clue how to prioritize your tax dollars.  They have to beg for funding and call citizens for donations.  These are the same guys and girls who pull out a gun and try to save lives by putting theirs on the line.  When we talk about this let us remember the billions wasted on the criminals who cheat, rob, and kill you me and cops.  Two of the most important jobs in America Teacher’s and Police officers are paid and treated like lap dogs and are expected to bow down and take it.  It is just another embarrassment to this nation and to you and me for not standing up and doing something to change things.  Police are under staffed and do not have enough money across the nation to fulfill their duties and put enough patrols out there to make even a dent on crime in some areas of this country.  They have to double shift and where two and three hats.  I am a profiler and every department across this country should have criminal profilers and forensic experts on staff.  I know most citizens watch television and think that all areas of law enforcement have all of the departments in place in order to catch the criminal, and that my friends is far from the truth.  Police departments, the FBI, CIA and all others are not here to protect you from becoming a victim at any given time of day. Gun control people would have you believe that they do protect you and that if something happens you don’t need protection you can call a cop.  That is not true and is a flat out lie. In fact it is not even the job of law enforcement to save and protect you as an individual any more than it is any other citizen who can help when they happen to be at the scene of a crime in progress.  Law enforcements job is to educate, and be a deterrent by making themselves as visible as possible and having the ability to come after a criminal who has committed a crime and bring him or her to justice.  The true job of law enforcement is to keep the laws on the books, and get as many people as possible to live within the boundaries of the law therefor making you neighborhood as safe as possible.  If it was the police officers job to protect you they would fail 99f% of the time.  Let’s take a look at why this is a truth some of the government and gun folks don’t want you to know.  When a crime is in progress the criminal or perpetrator chose you as a victim or the store he is in because he did not see any police officer around.  He broke into your house when you were not home because he believed that you don’t have a police officer who stays there guarding your home when you leave.  The group that does a home invasion and ties you all up and maybe kills you before they leave, did it when a police officer was not present.  The guy who held you up did so in that place because he did not want to be seen elsewhere by a police officer, and the rapist and child murderer chose to rape and kill where he or she did because they knew that a cop would not be there to stop them.  Must I go on?  The police are not there to save you, they will come later, take notes, look at the crime scene and if possible and if they have the manpower and funding will try to find the person who committed the crime against you.  Remember that if you make a law that says no guns then the good guys won’t have guns. The criminals will have guns because that is what a criminal is.  A criminal is a person who does not follow the law.  The truth is that states like New Jersey and New York allow criminals with guns to harm good people who follow the law which is made to protect the criminal obviously because they certainly don’t want the decent people to protect themselves.

     Criminal Justice is another area where the government has let us down, they are underfunded and couldn’t help you even if it where there job to do so.  The criminals in this country have better guns and automatic weapons. Our police have shot guns and pistols.  Any other weapons they have are few and far between.  This is the governments fault because as you know they seem to think that they are there to protect the rights of the criminal and not the police officer.  Our lunatic court system puts good police officers in jail if they use force to catch a criminal.  The government hires and screens the police and then drags them through the mud when they have to pull out their gun and shoot some punk who just robbed someone, and is now threatening the officer’s life with a gun of their own. Here is some food for thought, 65 billion dollars for convicts, how about using some for Police?

     On September 30, 2011 a Fox News article written by John Lott, titled, “Media Silence Is Deafening about Important Gun News” was published on the Fox News web page. It was on the Fox News web page and some of you may have read the article.  The article stated that since the new gun laws where put into effect in Washington D.C., the crime rate has not only gone down, but has plummeted. The article talks about the fact that states, cities and countries that don’t allow its law abiding citizens to own and carry guns for protection are among those with the highest crime rates, and those crime rates continue to go up.  The article quotes Mayer Daily of Chicago and those in Washington who said that more guns will lead to more crime and that the courts in affect where making a bad decision when backing second amendment rights.  The New York Times just printed “A bad Decision”.  The truth is that nothing of the kind happened!  The fact is that, the crime rates since the law took effect have not only gone down, but have plummeted past the national average.  This is not strange, and is in effect an undisputable fact.  When decent law abiding citizens arm themselves people who would have otherwise hurt or robbed them decide that maybe it would be too dangerous, so they don’t. It has happened in every state that enacted a law allowing the good among us to defend them.  Some of you may still be saying that guns have killed children by accident and therefore should be banned.  More children die blowing up balloons and taking baths each year then by the gun.  Should we just ban balloons and baths as well?  I promised to tell you the truth and let you decide, but the facts themselves stand for themselves.  Where law abiding citizens carry guns, there is less crime of all types from robbery, to murder, to rape.  The truth is that it is a safer place to be, period.  I carry a gun and I have been trained to do so.  Most of the states train the folks who carry, and that is why it works so well and puts such a dent in the crime rate of that area.  You also need to know that most people in every state that carry guns never have to pull them out. The law that says they can pull them out if there life or the life of another is in danger has been enough to drop the crime rates to record lows.  Don’t believe the lies.  The truth is those in charge have may have some mayhem in their hearts, or maybe just a guilty conscience, but they are not happy that those they want to have control over carry a weapon.  What does all of this mean?  The government is not really on your side even though the facts prove that you are safer because of the second amendment, they would rather you be in the position of the people who live in New Jersey and New York where only the criminals have guns.  Oh yes, the criminals have guns, that is why we call then criminals and law breakers! No gun law stops crime, it only stops you from being protected.  Check out the crime rates of these states for yourselves if you don’t believe me. Police don’t and cannot stop crime, only investigate it after the fact or deter it if they can make their presence known.  The problem is that it takes the police to long to get to you if they even know you are in trouble in the first place.  When someone holds you up at gunpoint they don’t give you time to call the cops.  If someone decides to break into your house when you are there they are in and sometimes out before you even get a chance to call. That is you may get a chance to call if you are still around, and in condition when they are finished with you, to do so.  If you are wondering how I know, remember in the beginning of the book I told you I was, and still am a Nationally Certified Clinical Criminal Justice Specialist. I am telling you the truth about crime and the Police, I teach Police, and I know the truth. 

     As you can see by now I am not making this stuff up, but basing my opinions on experience, facts, and what knowing the facts and seeing with my own eyes tells me.  Hey like I said, Maybe it’s just me, but I am mad as hell! Aren’t you! Here is some food for thought; the Second Amendment says that we have a right as people to keep and bear arms, but it also says that we can have a militia if we think we need it to continue being a free state.  The government and anti-gun folks sometimes try to say that this part is what the amendment was meant for as if the second part doesn’t exist. Just think would you want good individuals bearing arms or should they just get large groups together and start a small army who then can bear arms? Remember a militia is not a professional group but a group created by individuals with enough money to outfit one.  It is a little army connected to whatever group they want to be.  I am not sure this is the way to go, but to each his own.

     One more change we need to make is to untie the hands of our law enforcement personnel. We need to give them the best chance we can against the criminal who not only have guns, but sometimes weapons that our Police officers can’t carry when trying to stop crime.  It is true we have to protect ourselves or have a cop in front of every home.  They do what they can, and our government and courts are no help to them giving criminals and those who would harm others more rights than victims. This has to change but even if it does, the facts prove that where law abiding citizens can defend themselves and carry guns, the crime rates are going down, and fast!

By: Frank Hulse

Chapter 1

            It was 3075 in the Busientine solar system.  Currently there was a massive war against humanity there.  Captain Armstrong who basically started this war was at the helm of the most important hour of his life.  He was summoned by the guardians to the tower of the undead.  The guardians were immortals who were believed to have made the universe.  Captain was too busy to go the stupid tower of the undead.  At the tower it is chaos.  Many years before humans were named a species, a guardian named human discovered them.  He was later expelled from the guardians for his later actions.

            He thought it would be funny to torture them.  He travelled to earth and took a few humans.  He bred them and made an army of them.  Than he bred a human with himself.  Their offspring was a race called coleapers.  They look and act like a zombie.  But there is one different variable.  Coleapers are smarter than a zombie.  Human constructed a tower for the coleapers.  Anyone that entered never came back out.  That was not on the list of things to do for Captain Armstrong.

            There was a warrant out for Armstrong’s arrest.  They were going to get him into that tower if they had to kill themselves.  Captain thought nothing of it and continued on with his life.  He was on his way to euphleme.  There he would have his statue unveiled.  He was being awarded it for his intense bravery and actions.  His most infamous battle was the battle of turkemanestion.

            In that battle the rebels, aka the Captains side of the war, was outnumbered.  They had the choice to retreat or fight.  More than half the troops chickened out and went home.  The remaining troops and Armstrong started to man the perimeter.  Some on turrets, few with snipers, and one with a hyperbeam rifle. Take a wild guess who had the hyperbeam rifle.  Shure enough the Captain took full control of the troops.  The battlefield was very quiet and dark for many hours.  The troops thought the attack was nothing more than a rumor.

            They were told that if they patrolled the surrounding forty five miles they would be able to leave.  The captain stepped up on a stage and gave a small speech.  He said that he was in charge no matter what happens.  He knew that a lot of good men and women are going to die if they get attacked.  Lastly he stated that they are going to keep him fully updated with their reports on their findings.

            He later separated the rebels into fifty groups and gave each group a set of coordinates and a walkie-talkie.  The groups spread out along the battlefield.  The captain and his finest men were in a special group.  They were patrolling along the nearest river.  Along the first ten miles he sent out an all-call to his troops.  All troops report back to me on your findings and your coordinates. You should have walked ten miles by now.  If you haven’t you will have to make it up by tomorrow.  Tonight we will rest.  Use your tents wisely.  They are camo for a reason put them in the densest area you can find beamed his voice over the walkie-talkie.

            The captain received answers to his last report for hours.  Everyone was safe and in their tents.  He wished that for the next three days they were like today.  Little did he know that he would have to fight to get out of his tent the next morning.

CHAPTER 2

            Ron sipped his cold yeiger, a common drink the locals have on turkemanestion.  He was the general of the senagalian army. The senagals were on the other side of the war than the rebels.  Ron sent in most of his army to turkemanestion.  He was too scared of what they might find there and stayed in orbit with a uncountable number of forces. He was a basic wimp, hired men to do his dirty work for him.  Also Ron always had an escape route. He made many rebels sick to their stomachs.

            Ron was dropping his entire fleet onto the planet. They were stationed there to find the rebels.  They were about fifty miles away from where the captain was searching.  If Ron’s army started their search the other way there wouldn’t be a problem.  If they started their search the other way the rebels would be sought out and killed or captured.  Without backup the rebels would be toast.  Then again, if the senagals searched the other way there would be no problem.

            Aboard Ron’s ship there was a scientist.  But not just any scientist. A benezioan scientist. They tended to study more chemical warfare than anything else.  In a matter of minutes they can design a toxin and add it to a bullet before you even know it.  So if you are trying to take your enemy down and not kill him these scientists can be a problem.  His name was Barry.  His father came up with the idea of chemical warfare.  Barry snuck onto the ship with a group of soldiers. 

            They were a kill team, there to kill Johnny Robertson.  Johnny stole from the senagals army back on earth.  He was the leader of a small-time street gang.  But from Johnny’s stupid move, to help his gang, he now was a wanted criminal.  So when the kill team was supposed to leave their elevator, it opened up empty.  Than after Barry saw the coast was clear he hopped down from the roof of the elevator and left behind a large nuclear bomb.  The bomb had the capacity to blow the ship into many small pieces.

            That wasn’t his style though.  Barry would be almost out of the solar system before he even realized that he had the timer in his pocket.  He was there to steal a key component to his new idea for a chemical.  He was going to make a chemical that would incapacitate his targets.  He could slip it into one of the soldier’s uniforms and clear out the entire ship.  Once Barry had the chemical he would make his demise and detonate the nuke.

CHAPTER 3

            “All troops sound off” said Armstrong.  No answer.  “I repeat all troops sound off” repeated Armstrong.  He then proceeded to wake up all of his officers near him.  “Set up a perimeter and get a radio. We are at major danger and this is not a drill.” 

            The enemy had been marching straight at Armstrong’s camp all night.  They had a portable radio jammer and had blocked his radio.  For all they know the rest of the troops were dead and unreachable.  Armstrong knew that his squad couldn’t handle the other army so they either had to hide or surrender.  Armstrong would never surrender.   He would rather fight and die than surrender.  His squad retreated to a local bar.  In the middle of the war it was deserted.

            They hid in shelves and cabinets in the kitchen.  They watched live feed cameras they placed around the building.  There was a rule though, if you can see the enemy you can’t move the camera.  This would eliminate any suspicion that they had about there being enemies there.  While troops were marching by and tanks were rolling in no one moved.  But in the back there was a large object that looked like a bomb.  One officer wanted to get a closer look and moved his camera.  Within moments the bar was flooded with enemies.

            They were checking all the cabinets.  They were all empty.  As the sengals got closer they could hear all the radios go off simultaneously.  “All troops report back to your transport ships.  Leave the nuke wherever and get off that planet.  I lost contact with a small squad last night.  We just heard gunfire.  A small kill squad was also found dead on my……” squealed Ron’s voice.  At the end it was cut off by static.  They found Barry’s little mess on the elevator.  Meanwhile Barry himself was rummaging through bubbling tubs and oozing jars.

At least nine women were romantically-linked to him: SEGUNDA KATIGBAK his first love; LEONOR VALENZUELA to whom he wrote love notes in invisible ink; LEONOR RIVERA; CONSUELO ORTIGA Y REY of Madrid to whom he wrote his best romantic poem; O-SEI SAN, a Japanese samurai’s daughter who taught him the Japanese art of painting; GERTRUDE BECKETT, the blue-eyed and buxom Londoner who helped him in his painting and sculpture; NELLY BOUSTEAD whom he met at the art studio of Juan Luna in Madrid; SUZANNE JACOBY whom he met in Brussels and fell in love with after Leonor Rivera died ; JOSEPHINE BRACKEN.

Rizal had almost everything in life and gained immortality after his death but he lost the two women he most loved who are among those listed above: LEONOR RIVERA and JOSEPHINE BRACKEN.

LEONOR RIVERA, the most influential woman of his youth, was his first cousin. She was 15 to his 22 when he left for Europe in 1883 to study and to seek reforms from Spain. He had left her a farewell poem, henceforth becoming his secret sweetheart through correspondence for eleven years, his one and only love while he studied. Five years later, already branded a subversive for writing what his detractors considered “inflammatory” novels that fanned the Philippine Revolution of 1896, he returned to the Philippines to marry her and to face a charge of rebellion, but his father objected to the marriage because he feared that it would endanger the Rivera family. Still he kept sending her letters which were intercepted by Leonor’s mother who favored an English railway engineer (Henry Charles Kipping) on ground that Leonor could never be happy with a man wanted by the law. Suffering from insomnia because she thought Rizal had forgotten her, she married Kipping and had two children by him: the first one, Carlos, would marry Lourdes Romulo, sister of Carlos Romulo, erstwhile Ambassador of the Philippines to the United States; the second one caused her childbirth complications leading to her death in 1893 at age of 25, which deeply grieved Rizal and haunted him forever.

JOSEPHINE BRACKEN, jealous of Leonor’s memory, was the last and most controversial woman in Rizal’s life whom he met (two years after Leonor died) during his exile in Zamboanga in 1895. She was to become his “wife” but their romance was nipped in the bud a year later when he lost her through his death by firing squad . Rizal’s death presaged the foundation of an independent Philippines that had been under Spanish rule for more than three centuries. Before his martyrdom the Filipino was called an “Indio” (barbarian), a stranger in his own country and a slave to the Spanish colonizers; after he died the name was changed to “Filipino” after King Philip of Spain, an honor he shared with Spaniards who came to or were born in the Philippines, a name he now bears.

For a multi-talented genius who enjoyed a well-heeled life and had the experience of romantic love with at least seven beautiful women after he lost Leonor Rivera, and pampered by warm family ties, Rizal’s solitary life as an exile in Dapitan, Zamboanga must have been terribly lonely. In spite of that, he kept himself busy as a scientist, farmer, engineer, educator, and philanthropist. But that was not enough. He also occupied himself loving JOSEPHINE BRACKEN, the stranger who filled his emotional vacuum with joy which Rizal’s family was unhappy about. She was 16 years younger than Rizal who was 34 when they met. She died at 26 in 1902 outliving Rizal by 6 years.

Josephine Bracken looked distinctly European of a tiny build, five feet and an inch to Rizal’s average Chinese-Filipino height of “a little over five feet”. She was “sweet eighteen, slender, chestnut blond, blue-eyed, with an atmosphere of light gayety, dressed with elegant simplicity”. She had been rumored to be either an adopted child or an illegitimate daughter of James Bracken an Irishman and his unknown Chinese wife.

Gossip had it too that she had been either a bar girl or a boat girl in Hongkong when she came to Dr. Rizal’s eye clinic in Dapitan with a blind sixty year-old man by the name of GEORGE TAUFFER in tow. Rizal could not take his eyes off her. It was love-at-first-sight. Tauffer and Josephine had crossed the sea from Hongkong to consult Rizal because he believed in Rizal’s expertise as an ophthalmologist. Unfortunately Rizal found him incurable because he was syphilitic.

Tauffer was said to have sexually-abused Josephine after his second wife died of cancer. Resigned to his fate as forever blind and jealous of Rizal and Josephine’s blossoming love, he attempted suicide by slashing his wrist with a razor. Torn between duty and love, Josephine took him back to Hongkong after which she returned to the Philippines to fulfill her promise to see Rizal again.

Maria, one of Rizal’s sisters, suspected her to be a prostitute on account of her beauty and a spy of the Spanish friars. No priest would marry Rizal and Josephine unless he retracted what they considered his “anti-Catholic religious errors” and, unless he denounced Masonry of which he was a Master Mason in Paris. The Masons were free to lambast the abusive Spanish friars abroad, a thing which could not be done on Philippine soil. It was the Masons whose help Rizal sought in his fight against Spanish tyranny through his novels (Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo) and through a secret society called La Liga Filipina.

Denied a church wedding and helpless since there was no civil marriage at that time, Rizal and Josephine decided on a life of live-in partners, a relationship they both respected and cherished and were not ashamed about but which was frowned upon by Rizal’s family except his father and sister Narcisa. The couple pleaded to Fr. Antonio Obach to marry them but Fr. Obach wanted a retraction. Dr. Gregorio Zaide, author of Rizal textbooks, argues that, at last Fr. Vicente Balaguer, a Jesuit missionary whom Rizal befriended to marry Josephine, finally convinced him to retract and officiated at their wedding after the retraction.

Be that as it may, in his letters to his mother Rizal did not forget to write “Miss B sends her regards” especially when she was conceiving their baby which died a few months after birth. Again he argued for his love: “Miss B lacks nothing except that we are not married, but you yourself had said, better to live in the grace of God than marry in mortal sin…. She has nobody except me.” Rizal pleaded for the last time before his execution: “Have pity on poor Josephine!”

Before he faced the firing squad Rizal gave Josephine a copy of “Imitacion de Cristo” (by Thomas Kempis) inscribed “To my dear and unhappy wife, Josephine”, for he knew how much his “wife” suffered.The stigma of being Rizal’s “querida” (mistress) would not die on the vine even after Rizal’s death. Josephine was denied possession of Rizal’s library which cost a fortune because she could not show evidence of marriage. Then she stole away from the Rizal residence to join the Philippine Revolution. Five months later she boarded the Yuensang for Hongkong using the name Josephine Bracken Tauffer, although in an interview for the China Mail she said she married Rizal and witnessed his execution. She was to marry later Vicente Abad (Filipino representative of Tabacalera in Hongkong) with whom she had a daughter who died in Manila at the age of 87. For as long as she lived she was either Rizal’s widow or his mistress.

Certainly, Josephine was a relief from Rizal’ solitariness in his exile, and so, he must have been madly in love with her most especially because their union was on the honeymoon stage. Indeed, what could be a happier diversion than to love her? But, did Rizal love her enough to retract? To acknowledge their marriage is to accept Rizal’s alleged anti-Catholic religious errors. Whether he retracted or not he was still prisoner awaiting death, which meant leaving Josephine forever. Why should he retract if it made no difference to their love and to the fate of his country? (He did not foresee he would become liberator of the Philippines from Spanish bondage.)

Whether he had a mistress or wife does not affect Rizal’s greatness. The issue is also senseless because Rizal had conferred upon Josephine Bracken the supreme honor and eternal love for a woman which only a hero and poet of his stature could give: that of IMMORTALITY embedded in the last stanza of “Mi Ultimo Adios” . Listen: “Adios dulce estrangera, mi amiga, mi alegria.” (Farewell sweet stranger, my friend, my delight.) He did not say “mi esposa” (my wife) — whatever that meant to the couple and to the Filipinos.

Whether Josephine was Rizal’s l wife or lover, the issue leads to a dead end because Rizal, greatest Malayan lover and Philippine national hero, definitely loved the woman he immortalized in his last farewell. ###

(References: Austine Coates’ Filipino Martyr and Nationalist; Gregorio and Sonia Zaide’s Life and Works of Dr. Jose Rizal; Sunday Inquirer: Dec. 27,1987; The Philippines Free Press; other Rizal texts.)

Rizal was immediately transferred to a chapel cell to wait for his last moment. Among those who visited him were his Jesuit professors at the Ateneo de Manila where he attended high school and earned the degree of Bachiller en Artes. There was no representative from the University of Santo Tomas where he pursued Medicine and Philosophy.

Standouts among those who viewed him on his last hour were his lawyer; his bodyguard; Fr. Federico Faura who had predicted that his novel the Noli Me Tangere would cost him his life; Fr. Vicente Balaguer who was known to have married him and Josephine Bracken and who convinced him to retract his “anti-Catholic” ideas found in his novels; Donya Teodora his mother; Trinidad his sister to whom he gave the alcohol cooking stove which contained his last poem of farewell; Josephine Bracken his “wife”.

About 6:30 a.m. of December 30, 1896 a trumpet heralded the start of Dr. Jose Rizal’s death march to Bagumbayan (now the Luneta or Rizal Park), a mound facing the sea. At a distance lay the island of Corregidor and the hills of Bataan. Four soldiers with bayoneted rifles formed the advance guard. A few meters behind them Rizal marched calmly in black suit, black derby hat, black shoes, white shirt, and black tie. His arms were tied from elbow to elbow, but the rope was loose enough to make him move. To the muffled sounds of the drums the cavalcade marched serenely. A few curious spectators lined the street from Fort Santiago to Plaza del Palacio of the Manila Cathedral.

Rizal and the cavalcade arrived at Bagumbayan at exactly 7:00 a.m. He faced the firing squad ready to be shot facing the enemy. He asked Captain Dominguez that he be shot through his heart but the request was denied because the death sentence specified that he be shot at the back. Rizal reluctantly turned his back facing the sea. Dr. Felipe Ruiz Castillo felt his pulse and was surprised to find that it was normal— meaning, he was not afraid to die. One friar came forward to let him kiss the Crucifix. Without a word he turned his face away. (Was this the action of a man who retracted his “anti-Catholic religious errors”?)

Captain Dominguez raised his sword and ordered the executioners: “Ready, aim, fire!” Riddled with bullets Rizal whirled and fell on his back, looking up at the sky. He died at exactly 7:03 a.m. on December 30, 1896. He was 35 years, 5 months, and 11 days old.

In his prophetic vision (like his dream which foretold the exact date of his execution, December 30) he had seen himself die (as described in the third stanza of his celebrated “Mi Ultimo Adios”, his last farewell poem) wherein he imagines his blood dyeing with crimson the newborn day.

I die just when I see the dawn break,
Through the gloom of night, to herald the day;
And if color is lacking, my blood thou shalt take,
Pour’d out at need for thy dear sake,
To dye with its crimson the waking ray.

In previous executions at Bagumbayan, it was normal for spectators to be noisy after the execution. But when Rizal fell Capt. Rafael Dominguez who supervised his execution ordered the crowd and his men to be silent. The silence was a recognition of “the brave recognizing the brave.”

Rizal’s remains were first buried at Paco Cemetery which, since early times had been a graveyard for early prelates and governors-general as well as victims of cholera that plagued Manila in 1820. Sixteen years later on December 30, 1912 his remains were exhumed and placed in a glass crypt at the base of Rizal’s present monument and tomb at the Luneta or Rizal Park (previously Bagumbayan where he had been shot by firing squad). The cemetery became a national shrine during the American Occupation.

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Dr. Rizal was shot, but the musketry that snuffed his breath at Bagumbayan (now the Luneta or the Rizal Park), sounded the end of more than three centuries of Spanish rule in the Philippines. It also heralded the birth of a new race of Filipinos. He and the Philippines have become the Filipino legacy. Before his execution there were only “Indios” or slaves. After his death the ideas and ideals which he nurtured in his own life and writings found their way into the national consciousness of the new Indio: the “Filipino”. 

Today the Filipinos are still fertilizing the future which Rizal had envisioned and for which he wished to be remembered. In a country like the Philippines (”the show window of Christianity and democracy in the Far East”) where the people reign supreme and God is the King, PEACE IS PRECIOUS AND BLOOD IS USELESS. At the EDSA Revolution to oust “Strongman” President Ferdinand Marcos, as the assault troops moved forward to kill, the world stood still and learned a lesson: that guns and pride cannot take the place of prayers and humility; that God does not march with iron-clad battalions but with the small man. The rest is for the world to emulate and remember. ###

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