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Cesar Yatco Alzona (September 15, 1926 – June 27, 1997) (born Cesar, a.k.a. Caesar, Caezar)Laguna,Philippines, was the author of the originalPhilippine Marines Hymn. He also authored another Marine-themed song, entitled "First to Fight." He served valiantly and received much praise as a military leader in the Marine Corps of thePhilippine Navy againstMuslim terrorists and Islamic insurgents in the southern island ofMindanao during the early years ofPhilippine independence from the United States in the 1950s. He was also one of the Filipino military personnel of theKorean war.[1]
He was sent to attend the professionalUnited States Marine Corps TBS atQuantico,Virginia,USA. As part of the Philippine Military and Diplomatic Corps inWashington DC at the time, married to socialite Esperanza Soldevilla Cornejo, daughter of prominent Philippine legislator,Miguel R. Cornejo, he established his family there[2] with children Augustus Caesar, Eduardo, Cezarina Barbara and Esperanza Patricia, and made a name in public and civic service. Upon return to the Philippines and after separation, he had two common-law wives, Natividad Santos of the 1960s Bulakeña Restaurant fame, with whom he had one son, and subsequently Mary Joseline Nueva-Marilao, with whom he had a daughter, Sandra Soraya Alzona.
In 1963 he returned to the Philippines to distinguished Philippine government service as a Deputy Assistant Minister of General Services in the cabinet of PresidentFerdinand Marcos and Executive Director of the Commission on National Integration (CNI) of the Philippines. During the time of PresidentCorazon Aquino he was the Administrator of the Senate (Batasang Pambansa Complex). Throughout decades of government service, he belonged to the 5th Group of the Development Academy of the Philippines and he named that group the Pentacrons. Caezar also became the Vice President of the Alumni Association of theNational Defense College of the Philippines (NDCP).[3]
He had been sent to study[4] inJapan as a teenager,[5] duringWorld War II whenImperial Japan was trying to conquer Asia but subsequently returned to the Philippines as an interpreter in Japanese for the Manila War Crimes trials[6] against Japanese War Criminals who fought against patriotic Filipinos, to include theBataan Death March. However, to make amends with former collaborators, he joined the Philippine Ambassador to JapanJose Laurel III who founded the Philippine Federation of Japan Alumni (PHILFEJA), but more known was Jose's younger brother,Salvador Laurel, who became Philippine Vice President alongside Corazon Aquino during the 1986People Power Revolution. During the time of PresidentFidel V. Ramos, he was offered the position of Ambassador toCambodia.
He is buried at theLibingan ng mga Bayani (Cemetery of the Heroes) for national patriots, inFort Bonifacio (formerly Fort McKinley) inTaguig,Metro Manila.
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