Uncelebrated
Heroes
Pakil has uncelebrated
heroes. They were Inocentes Macapanpan, who was killed
in the battlefiled
during the First Cry of Balintawak on August 26, 1896;
Ex-Mayor Ciriaco M.
Gonzales, who served as the Sacrificial Lamb for all Pakilenos
who joined
the guerilla warfare during the Second World War,
thus was killed and beheaded
by the Japanese in Lumban, Laguna; a
nd Boy Scout Rogelio C. Ybardolaza, Philippine
Representative to the 11th Boy Scout
World Jamboree who died in an airplane
crash on their way to Athens, Greece.