Regarding the Libingan ng mga Bayani
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
The national cemetery in Fort Bonifacio was first put up for Filipino military personnel, effectively the counterpart of the American Cemetery somewhere in the same area, where the United States soldiers killed during World War II are buried. Its English name is Cemetery of Heroes, the final resting place of the defenders of Bataan, Corregidor, Leyte, Leyte Gulf, Ormoc Bay, and yet other battlefields. There lies as well the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the dramatic representation of the many who fell fighting for his country yet sadly unidentified. On its main entrance, it is written: “I do not know the dignity of his birth, but I do know the glory of his death.”
First formally named as the Republic Memorial Cemetery, it became the Libingan ng mga Bayani on Oct. 27, 1954, upon the behest of then President Ramon Magsaysay, who would himself later perish in a plane crash but be interred elsewhere, at the Cemeterio del Norte in La Loma..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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