The Spaniards failed in Mindanao, so as the Americans and the Japanese armed forces during WW II. Gen. Arthur MacArthur's caliber 38 can't stop the "invisible Moros" already been hit by the bullet, still can attack, slash, kill them with their bolos. Gen. MacArthur have to request US armory to design and produced a more powerful caliber 45, was called "kalibreng pang Moro." So if Mindanao was not colonized by any imperialist country, why was Mindanao part of the whole purchase of $20 million at the Treaty of Paris?
Ang pagkakaiwan at pagnanakaw sa personal na gamit, sa bangkay ng heneral ay 'di ko na rin babangitin, sapagkat mala-hollywood na muli, ito nama'y nabasa na natin sa ating "history books" na nilimbag ng mga Gringo, ipinagamit sa paaralan at tuluyang lasunin ang kaisipan ng mga paslit na bata, nang mabura at maipairal sa murang kaisipan ng magaaral ang ninanais ng koloniyal nilang hangarin. Pati na ang paglalahad sa pahayagang “Chicago Tribune” kaugnay sa bangkay ni del Pilar nila McCutchen at Little, na isinama rin sa ating pangaklat paaralan ay pawang “makulay na eksena” sa Hollywood…