Many elderly people in the Philippines have made it their task in life to tell the younger generation of their ordeals during World War II in a bid to prevent war from ever happening again.
One of those survivors is 80-year-old Alejandro Devaras, who has kept an unusual piece of "war memorabilia" to underpin his story.
He has never had shrapnel in his leg removed — shrapnel that injured him at the height of fighting between U.S. and Japanese forces 70 years ago in the central island province of Leyte.