Capas National Shrine

The Capas National Shrine (Paggunita Sa Capas) in Barangay Navy Capas, Tarlac in The Philippines was built by the Philippine government as a memorial to the Filipino and American soldiers who died at Camp O'Donnell at the end of the Bataan Death March. This is significant site related to Veterans' Day in the Philippines (Araw ng Kagitingan), every 9 April, commemorates the surrender of the combined US and Philippine forces to the Japanese in 1942.

The area where the Bataan Death March ended was proclaimed by President Corazon Aquino as Capas National Shrine on 7 December 1991. The shrine encompasses 54 hectares of parkland, 35 hectares of which have been planted with rows of trees to represent each of the deceased.

On 9 April 2003, a new memorial wall and obelisk was unveiled. The 70-meter obelisk towers above the grounds of the former interment camp. The obelisk is surrounded by a three segment, black marble wall engraved with the names of the Filipinos and Americans known to have died during the Death march. There are statistics about the total numbers of prisoners and deaths, together with poems for peace.

There is also a small museum and mini monument built by an American group calling themselves the "Battling Bastards of Bataan", honoring the American dead of the period. A few hundred meters from the Obelisk is a garden separated from the rest of the shrine by a creek, it is passable with the means of a hanging bridge. The relics of an old train and railings are also present in the Shrine.