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Libingan ng mga Bayani

(Cemetery of the Heroes) is the Philippines national cemetery within Fort Bonifacio Taguig City, Metro Manila for Filipino military personnel from privates to generals, as well as heroes and martyrs; Filipinos in the World War II. United States Armed Forces defenders of Bataan, Corregidor, Leyte, Leyte Gulf, Ormoc Bay, the battles off in Samar, Mindoro, Palawan, Luzon, recapured the battles in Bataan, Corregidor in 1945 Manila, Visayas, Mindanao from the battles of Balete, Besang Pass, Capas, Antipolo, Nueva Ecija, Tanay, etc. It also contains the national Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, also buried here are: Rafael Ileto, Tomas B. Karingal, Carlos P. Romulo, Gen. Alfredo M. Santos, Max Soliven; Jesus Villamor (WW11) and Conrado Yap (Korean War Philippine military)

Manila American Cemetery and Memorial

 

Source: http://www.abmc.gov/cemeteries/cemeteries/ml.php (website has videos, also a cemetery booklet with or without pictures & an online electronic form. w/ contact information about the cemetery)

 

Excerpts:

established 1948; dedicated 12/8/1960 on 152 acres located @ McKinley Road, Global City
Taguig
Metro Manila (within the boundaries of the former Fort William McKinley, now known as Ft. Bonifacio); largest number of graves of U.S.military dead of WWII in the Pacific, a total of 17,202, most of whom lost their lives in operations in New Guinea and the Philippines. 36,285 names are inscribed the Tablets of the Missing. American Battle Monument Commission (ABMC) maintains the cemetery

Clark Cemetery

 

Source: http://www.vfwpost2485.com/clarkcem.htm

 

Excerpts from info posted as of 1/2/2008

 

20.365 acre, w/ 8,557 burials as of 12/31/200, located just inside the main gate of Clark Air Base; formed 1947-1950 by moving the headstones/markers and remains fr. four U.S. military cemeteries (Fort Stotsenburg 1 & 2, Fort McKinley, and Sangley Point Naval Cemetery). Clark Cemetery contains the remains of U.S. veterans from the USA, USN, USMC, USCG, USAF, Philippine Scouts (PS) and their dependents.  Some, but not all, were veterans of the Spanish/American, Philippine Insurrection, WWI, WWII (died after the war), Korean, Vietnam, and Iraq wars.  The largest category interred are civilian, mostly U.S. and Filipino and their dependents, all of whom worked for the U.S. Government.  In addition, nationals from France, Spain, Canada, Japan, China, Vietnam and India are buried there.

 

  

 Clark Cemetery   (1900 – 2007)

 

U.S. Veterans ....................................2,193 *

 

Dependents of U.S. Veterans .................676

 

Civilians (mostly U.S. & RP) ................1,085

 

Dependents of Civilians ......................2,275

 

Philippine Constabulary (PC) .....................2

 

Unclassified...........................................187

 

Unknown ...........................................2,139 **   

 

                                Total 8,557

   

 

·        Includes at least 640 Philippine Scouts (PS) from pre-WWII era.

All WWII dead were moved to the American Cemetery in Manila

·         

 

     **  This number includes three unknown Spanish soldiers buried in a common grave and there are at least three other group burial sites.  Information and historical records on the cemetery are extremely vague or nonexistent.

 

The earliest recorded burial is Santiago Belona, Pvt, PS, DOD: Jan 13, 1900

 

 

VFW Post 2485 maintains the cemetery; receives no U.S. or Philippine government funding & can only budget cemetery maintenance through money donations from various individuals, military organizations, veterans groups, and civic/business organizations; support from the U.S. Congress to resolve the cemetery funding problems was led by Rep. Montgomery in the Committee for Veteran Affairs.  This action apparently died from lack of interest.

 

 

Baguio WW11 American Cemetery

Source   http://www.groundreport.com/World/The-Long-Forgotten-Century-Old-American-Cemetery

 

Comments

Maria Elizabeth Embry posted 26 minutes ago:

All ww2 remains are re-interred @ the American Cemetry @ Ft. Bonifacio Manila. I am a researcher of Filipino U.S. military history resident of Antioch California & do not have any direct knowledge of this situation, however I will send an e-mail to the folks in charge of the Ft. Bonifacio cemetery if you would provide more info about this neglected Baguio cemetery. Thank you Sincerely, Maria Elizabeth Embry Antioch California pinay_492001@yahoo.com


by Nomadicasian for Rus in Urbe    October 25, 2008


Baguio City – An American cemetery that served as a resting place of WWII veterans and other unknown war heroes had been left unattended for a long time. The cemetery with one tombstone still standing alongside untrimmed grasses had become a graze land where animals of the locals feed.

 

The cemetery is such in a sorry state because the authorities concerned no longer give much attention to the preservation of the place. Every November of the year, cemeteries in the Philippines are being cleaned of its dirty surrounding in remembrance of the dead.

Station of the Cross
by Beth Hollingshead

I weep.

He wept.

She weeps.

WE weep.

We weep for those we have lost,

But, hopefully, with no regard for Badge, for Religion, for Gender,

for Race, or Creed, or Country.

For, those who are lost, are lost for good and forever.

And so we weep.

Will we forget to tell ourselves that when the bomb

Drops on them, it drops on us?

We are all the same shell of God.

When one of us is cracked or broken, then so are we.

Our tears still fall in the age old pattern:

From wet eyes, to wet nose, to wet lips, to wet chin, to wet neck,

To the bloody ground, on which we travel.

Our grief crumbles even with our proud towers.

No flag, no song, no salute can bring them back.

But we remember.

And yet, when the bombs, even in revenge, drop on them

The same bombs, the same revenge, will drop on us.

 

BOOM
Ashes, ashes....we ALL fall down

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