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The 7th Millennium Community would like to invite the local and international communities to participate in our proposal. We propose that a museum with multi-purpose center be established in Samar, Leyte and Southern Leyte and Surigao del Norte provinces.
The Battle for Leyte Gulf happened 66 years ago. It was the greatest naval battle in the history of the world! About 200,000 soldiers and 700 ships of the U.S.A. and Allied Forces took part during Gen. Douglas MacArthur's "I shall return" landing in Leyte island. Yet, there is no naval and war museum near where the largest sea battle took place. Furthermore, the world famous Hollywood movie writers, producers, directors and actors do not even care to make the gigantic screen movie about the historical events particularly the naval battles, just as excellent as the other war movies which received the Oscar Awards for Best Pictures!
They ignored, for example, that our government during the era of President Manuel L. Quezon opened our territory to the persecuted Jews in Western Europe to take refuge from their enemies even before Hitler ordered his soldiers to arrest and imprison the Jews in the concentration camps. "Preparations were made to accept 10,000 Jews a year, but only 1,200 made it to Manila. Sixty-seven Jewish refugees were among the 100,000 Manila residents who died during the 1945 U.S. liberation of Manila and heavy bombing that preceded it, which also destroyed Manila's only synagogue, Temple Emil".
Some of the few long time residents and survivors in Samar, Leyte, Southern Leyte and Surigao del Norte provinces had witnessed the guerrilla forces, army and marine divisions, the pilots and their crews of the fighter and bomber aircrafts, naval ships and their sailors from both the Allied Forces and the Imperial Japanese Military that fought against each others during World War 2. For sure they and their families, relatives and close friends will visit and patronize the museum when it is established.
We would like to suggest to the government and private sectors in the Philippines as well as in other countries that we need to establish a floating and/or land-based museum with multi-purpose center. The main reasons are to provide educational and cultural tours and visits, to provide an entirely different learning environment which could make a big difference to the communities involved, to promote tourism and create employment to the local residents who have no other alternative, but to work overseas to get away from their usual lack of job opportunities or their daily routine activities in the aforementioned provinces.
There are hundreds of mothballed, rusty, surplus naval, maritime, cargo and passenger ships in various types and sizes, not necessarily World War 2 decommissioned ships. They are rusting in the naval and other shipyards in Australia, China, South Korea, Japan, Russia, Canada, United States, Europe and many other countries. They are obsolete to be recycled in the future world of high-tech weaponry, the weapons of mass destruction, space and star wars.
They can be towed away to the ideal locations in Samar, Leyte, Southern Leyte and Surigao del Norte. The right site should be at the strategic and safe harbor with sea walls built nearby to protect the floating or land-based museum with multi-purpose center from the predictable storms, typhoons and other forces of nature. The mothballed ships can be be cleaned, repainted, maintained and be utilized again as a floating museum with multi-purpose facilities.
The future floating museum can be viewed similar to that of the nuclear icebreaker Lenin in Murmansk, northern Russia; the battleship museum HMS Belfast in London, England; the majestic Queen Mary in Long Beach, California; the world's largest floating naval museum USS Midway in San Diego, California; the most inspiring adventure in America at the USS Intrepid in New York City; the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and other memorial museums in some countries which attract thousands and thousands of the students, tourists and visitors.
In some museums and convention centers at the famous cities around the world, they have a bookstore and gift shop, cafeteria and restaurant, business center and other facilities. Thus we suggest further that the proposed projects in Samar, Leyte, Southern Leyte and Surigao del Norte will have the tourist information booths, classrooms for seminars and workshops, audio-visual rooms or theaters and other services.
The few living veterans of the Pacific Wars such as the Americans, Australians, Chinese, Japanese, Filipinos, the Allied Forces, and their respective families, relatives, close friends, and other residents including the next generations of the people around the globe need to be reminded always about their history through the museum. The tourists or visitors need to be reminded frequently on the history of wars, from the Assyrian-Babylonian Empire to the present and future United Nations' war in the Battle of Armageddon or World War 3. When they review the timeline of all the history of conflicts and wars, the museum visitors would know on the ultimate end result of wars: There are no winners. All are losers!
We are praying, hoping and looking forward to the bright future of mankind when "He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples. They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they train for war anymore" (Isaiah 2:4).
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