CABANATUAN City: If not for the indie movie “Heneral Luna” shown last year, locals – including students – would never have appreciated the significance of Plaza Lucero here, which has been converted into a parking area, and the almost unnoticed marker in the Catholic church wall fronting it.

Some 117 years ago, on June 5, 1899, Antonio Luna, acknowledged bravest general in the Philippine-American War, was killed by the men of Emilio Aguinaldo in Cabanatuan City, Nueva Ecija.

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