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Manila American Cemetery 2022-04-11
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Visited the Manila American Cemetery to show it to my two daughters on the 11th April 2022.
14 images are posted here:
Uploaded to Photo Bucket, Philippine Historical Places, Manila Historical Places:
app.photobucket.com/u/PI-Sailor/a/e6b6e441-ae70-41f1-b904-57196e81cff1For this Forum Presentation I chose these 7 pictures:
American Battle Monuments Commission (Has This Website)
www.abmc.gov/Manila
My two daughters, standing at right, looking at the picture, at the Manila American Cemetery on the 11th April 2022.
This is one of 4 images of the Manila American Cemetery showing on rectangular Trani limestone piers within the hemicycles, are inscribed the Tablets of the Missing containing 36,286 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified.
This is a view towards the entrance of the Manila American Cemetery from near the chapel, a white masonry building enriched with sculpture and mosaic, which stands near the center of the cemetery. In front of it on a wide terrace are two large hemicycles.
One of two images of the Manila American Cemetery, me standing in front of one of the twenty-five mosaic maps recalling the achievements of the American armed forces in the Pacific, China, India and Burma. On the first picture I show my intention to explore the 1945 Great Naval Base in Guiuan, South-East Samar next month in May. In the second picture I’m pointing out the town of Balangiga where in Dec. 2018 the United States returned the Three Bells of Balangiga, which were took 117 years ago, then, after the Balangiga Attack on an American Company by the Filipino Resistant Fighters. I had the honor to be present for the event in 2018, so that place is very special to me.
One of two images of the Manila American Cemetery, me standing in front of one of the twenty-five mosaic maps recalling the achievements of the American armed forces in the Pacific, China, India and Burma. On the first picture I show my intention to explore the 1945 Great Naval Base in Guiuan, South-East Samar next month in May. In the second picture I’m pointing out the town of Balangiga where in Dec. 2018 the United States returned the Three Bells of Balangiga, which were took 117 years ago, then, after the Balangiga Attack on an American Company by the Filipino Resistant Fighters. I had the honor to be present for the event in 2018, so that place is very special to me. I got on my Balangiga Shirt!!!!
One of 6 images of a new Visitor Center at the Manila American Cemetery. Here is the URL and read this:
MANILA, Philippines and WASHINGTON – Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019 – The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) today officially opened a new interpretive visitor center at the Manila American Cemetery (MNAC). The Manila Visitor Center is the first in the Pacific and tells the story of the war for the Pacific during World War II.
www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/american-battle-monuments-commission-dedicates-new-manila-american-cemetery-visitorIt is very nice and I will be back to have a closer look, bymyself!
One of 6 images of a new Visitor Center at the Manila American Cemetery. Here is the URL and read this:
MANILA, Philippines and WASHINGTON – Saturday, Oct. 19, 2019 – The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) today officially opened a new interpretive visitor center at the Manila American Cemetery (MNAC). The Manila Visitor Center is the first in the Pacific and tells the story of the war for the Pacific during World War II.
www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/american-battle-monuments-commission-dedicates-new-manila-american-cemetery-visitorThis is from the cemetery’s web page:
Overview
The Manila American Cemetery and Memorial in the Philippines occupies 152 acres on a prominent plateau, visible at a distance from the east, south and west. It contains the largest number of graves of our military dead of World War II, a total of 16,859, most of whom lost their lives in operations in New Guinea and the Philippines. The headstones are aligned in 11 plots forming a generally circular pattern, set among masses of a wide variety of tropical trees and shrubbery.
The chapel, a white masonry building enriched with sculpture and mosaic, stands near the center of the cemetery. In front of it on a wide terrace are two large hemicycles. Twenty-five mosaic maps recall the achievements of the American armed forces in the Pacific, China, India and Burma. On rectangular Trani limestone piers within the hemicycles, are inscribed the Tablets of the Missing containing 36,286 names. Rosettes mark the names of those since recovered and identified. Carved in the floors are the seals of the American states and its territories. From the memorial and other points within the cemetery there are impressive views over the lowlands to Laguna de Bay and towards the distant mountains.
American Battle Monuments Commission Dedicates New Manila American Cemetery Visitor Center
www.abmc.gov/news-events/news/american-battle-monuments-commission-dedicates-new-manila-american-cemetery-visitor
Look like I will try again in 6 months...
