'Yearly Spruce Up'Friday, 29 October, 2010. Photo by: Bullit Marquez/ Associated Press (L.A.Times).
In Navotas, Phillippines a lighted candle is placed on a tomb of a family member by a young man in a slum community north of Manila .The Filipinos are preparing to spruce up the graves in preparation for the observance of All Saint's Day .In other cultures the last day of October is used for Halloween and all entailed in it , but this time is set aside for Filipinos to remember loved ones and decorate their graves . This is a very unique way of remembering the lives of those whom they loved dearly.
In Navotas, Phillippines a lighted candle is placed on a tomb of a family member by a young man in a slum community north of Manila .The Filipinos are preparing to spruce up the graves in preparation for the observance of All Saint's Day .In other cultures the last day of October is used for Halloween and all entailed in it , but this time is set aside for Filipinos to remember loved ones and decorate their graves . This is a very unique way of remembering the lives of those whom they loved dearly.
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