Pacific War Memorial and Gen. Douglas MacArthur

Shown here is the dock from which Gen Macarthur reluctantly left the Island. He was told by president Roosevelt 3 times to leave before he fianlly did. This is also the place where he made his famous "I shall return" speech and promise.

This dome at the Pacific War Memorial has a hole cut at the top and a large circular altar beneath. On the altar is written: Sleep, my sons, your duty done, for freedom’s light has come. Sleep in the silent depths of the sea or in your hallowed bed of sod until you hear at dawn the low clear reveille of God." The sun through the hole in the dome falls directly on the circular altar only one day out of the year – May 6, the day Corregidor fell.




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