From the December 2, 2016, Inquirer.Net.
The Gold Medal for the 260,000 Filipino and Filipino-American soldiers who served with U.S. Army Forces of the Far East, USAFFE, during World War II has been approved.
Now it goes to President Obama for his signature.
The Rescission Act of 1946, Congress stripped Filipino soldiers of the benefits they were promised by FDR. Fewer than 7,000 of them survive today in the United States. Overall, there are just 18,000 Filipino veterans still alive.
The Tuskegee Airmen and Hawaii's 442nd/100th Infantry Battalion have also received the Congressional Gold Medal.
About Time. --GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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