US Embassy official pays tribute to veterans 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Roy MabasaA top United States Embassy official on Monday paid tribute to hundreds of Filipino and American war veterans who shun their self-interests and personal concerns in defense of the two countries’ freedom and liberty. Speaking at the Veterans Day commemoration rites at the Manila American Cemetery in Taguig City, US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission John Law said the debt that the two nations owe these men and women are “not one we can easily repay but we can eternally remember.”“These men and women did not survive to be called veterans. They are patriots who took up arms to defend our two countries with an extraordinary ability to forget their own self-interest… above their mere personal concerns,” Law said in a speech he delivered on behalf of Ambassador Sung Kim. In his remarks, the US diplomat also honored the remains of 17,206 Filipino and American service members who died in the Pacific, China, India, and Burma during World War 2, including the 32,286 Filipinos and Americans who are missing but whose names are inscribed on the hemicycle walls of the cemetery.

Source: Manila Bulletin November 11, 2019 09:02 UTC