{"id":10477,"date":"2016-12-06T10:07:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-06T02:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=10477"},"modified":"2016-12-06T10:46:14","modified_gmt":"2016-12-06T02:46:14","slug":"filipino-war-veterans-to-receive-congressional-gold-medal-from-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2016\/12\/06\/filipino-war-veterans-to-receive-congressional-gold-medal-from-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Filipino war veterans to receive \u2018Congressional Gold Medal\u2019 from US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a report published by <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnation.inquirer.net\/150378\/us-honors-pinoy-war-vets\">Philippine Daily Inquirer<\/a>, a bill to honor Filipino soldiers who fought under US command in World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal\u00a0has been passed on November 30, 2016 as the US House of Representatives voted for the passage of the Filipino Veterans of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2015 (H.R. 2737).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10478\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/US-VET.jpg\" alt=\"us-vet\" width=\"1124\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/US-VET.jpg 1124w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/US-VET-290x218.jpg 290w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/US-VET-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/US-VET-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/US-VET-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1124px) 100vw, 1124px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Sen. Mazie Hirono (center), who sponsored the Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2015 in the Senate, with leaders and members of the Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project (FilVetREP) celebrate after Congress approved the bill granting recognition to Filipino World War II veterans.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>(Image grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filvetrep.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/FilVetREP.jpg\">filvetrep.org<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Congressional Gold Medal is among the highest civilian honors in the US.\u00a0According to Tony Taguba, chairman of The Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project and a US Army veteran, in a news release via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filvetrep.org\/a-message-from-filvetrep-chairman-maj-gen-tony-taguba-ret\/\">filvetrep.org<\/a>, the medal \u201cis now their symbol of dignity and honor restored, and the triumph they had sought for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leslie Moe-Kaiser, OCA National President, added that \u201cover 200,000 Filipinos fought on behalf of the United States and today only 15,000 remain.\u00a0We hope that this Congressional Gold Medal may finally honor their distinguished and crucial role in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill will now be submitted to President Barack Obama to be signed. With this, Filipino veterans will be granted the family immigration benefits\u00a0that they were promised.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnation.inquirer.net\/150378\/us-honors-pinoy-war-vets\">Philippine Daily Inquirer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filvetrep.org\/a-message-from-filvetrep-chairman-maj-gen-tony-taguba-ret\/\">filvetrep.org<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to honor Filipino soldiers who fought under US command in World War II with the Congressional Gold Medal has been passed on November 30, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1257,1258,1259],"class_list":["post-10477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-congressional-gold-medal","tag-filipino-veterans-of-world-war-ii-congressional-gold-medal-act-of-2015","tag-filipino-veterans-recognition-and-education-project"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2016\/12\/US-VET.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10477"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10489,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10477\/revisions\/10489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}