Filipino-American vets lobby for benefits

Filipino-American vets lobby for benefits
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2007/02/apfilipinovets070227/

{EXCERPT} , By Audrey McAvoy - The Associated Press Posted : Tuesday
Feb 27, 2007 13:21:02 EST

HONOLULU ? Dozens of Filipino-American veterans of World War II
lobbied Rep. Maize Hirono on Monday for legislation entitling them to
the same benefits as the American soldiers they fought with
side-by-side against the Japanese.

They also asked Hirono to support legislation that would enable the
aging former soldiers to quickly bring their sons and daughters to the
U.S.

?We?re growing old every day and we don?t know what will happen
tomorrow,? said veteran Jose Vizconde Basug, 81, explaining why he and
his comrades need help urgently.

The men fought as guerrillas to resist Japanese troops who invaded the
Philippines, then a U.S. commonwealth, in 1941.

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