Wiggins served as Army staff sergeant in the Philippines and Japan during World War II.
After the Philippines' supportive role in World War II, many Filipinos were also promised U.S. citizenship, and that boosted migration.
True, the United States Navy under Admiral George Dewey had ousted Spain from the Philippines in the Spanish-American War of 1898.
In 1972, not long after strongman Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, Misuari quit his job teaching political science at the University of the Philippines to lead the MNLF into a guerrilla war.
If Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney or Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, the administration's leading neoconservative, had been aware of the brutal war America had fought in the Philippines, or of Wilson's misadventures in Mexico, or of the blighted history of Western imperialism in the Mideast, they might still have invaded Iraq.
During World War II, he served in the Philippines and Japan and rose to the rank of staff sergeant.
Hagel also recalled family war history during a private meeting Saturday with Philippines Secretary of National Defense Voltaire Gazmin.
In the Philippines only President Fidel Ramos, who once directed the war against the Muslims, has the credibility to convince the Christians of the necessity of peace, and the Muslims of his seriousness in backing it.
Indeed, most of the major ones have descended on the Philippines and are now embroiled in an all-out price war.
Filipino American Vargas recalls that his high school history textbook had less than a page on the Philippines, and then it was only mentioned as a World War II battleground.
Asia had been ravaged by war - atomic bombs fell over Hiroshima, succeeding armies marched across the Philippines, guerrillas fought over Indochina.
President Arroyo is a staunch supporter of America's war on terror, seeking American help in dealing with armed members of the Philippines' Muslim minority.
Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines is the largest of the overseas cemeteries, with more than 17, 000 Americans, marking World War II's Pacific Theatre.
David Thai, a coffee-shop entrepreneur (see article), was born in Saigon to a family that had fled the north after the war to expel the French, left on a boat in 1975 and ended, via the Philippines and Vanuatu, in America.
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