{"id":3556,"date":"2015-02-01T16:34:09","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T16:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3556"},"modified":"2015-02-01T16:34:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T16:34:09","slug":"america-broke-its-promise-to-filipino-war-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=3556","title":{"rendered":"America broke its promise to Filipino War Veterans."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">HONOLULU, Hawaii<\/span><\/strong> \u2014 Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars attend a memorial ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony commemorated the 68th Philippine national holiday \u201cAraw ng Kagitingan\u201d or \u201cDay of Valor,\u201d and honoured Filipino-American service members during World War II. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Michael Hight\/Released)<\/p>\n<p>After the war, many Filipino soldiers were expecting to receive the same benefits as their American counterparts as promised by the US. After all, they had fought \u2014 and suffered \u2014 side-by-side with the Americans against the Japanese.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, President Harry Truman signed into law the infamous <strong>Rescission Act of 1946 which denied all benefits to Filipino veterans<\/strong> due to a reason by Congress that the US had already provided $200 million in aid to the Philippines. In effect, the Filipinos were designated as \u201csecond-class veterans\u201d by the very same country they fought for. Sadly, many have already died waiting for that promise to materialise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU, Hawaii \u2014 Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars attend a memorial ceremony at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}