Antonio Luna - Commemoration

Commemoration

• The famous University of the Philippines Diliman Sunken Garden was named as General Antonio Luna Parade Grounds.
• In 1951, the first postwar Philippine fifty peso bill featured a portrait of Luna until it was replaced in 1969 by a portrait of Sergio Osmeña.
• In the 102nd birth anniversary of Luna (1968), former President Ferdinand Marcos delivered a speech about the general. He said that Luna's guerrilla tactics preceded that of China's Mao Zedong and Vietnam's Vo Nguyen Giap and Ho Chi Minh.
• In 1999, the second and last of the General Emilio Aguinaldo-class patrol vessel was commissioned by the Philippine Navy. It was named BRP Gen. Antonio Luna (PG-141), after the general of the same name.
• A monument of Luna was erected at Plaza Lucero in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija.
• Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim led a commemorative program on Luna's 144th birth anniversary.
• A Philippine military base, Camp Antonio Luna in Limay, Bataan, was named after the general. It is currently the Office of the Director of the Government Arsenal.