Death
On March 8, 1945, during the closing days of the war, Marcos died in La Union at the hands of the enemy.
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“I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager.”
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