MSGallery Pathetic recount: How Filipino war vets were treated “Filipino war veterans could only get menial jobs as janitors, busboys or waiter’s assistant in restaurants, and as laundry aides”
Conrado Rigor Jr., son of Conrado Rigor Sr., a major of the guerilla forces in Northern Luzon, the USAFIP NL guerrilla unit during the almost four years occupation of the Philippines by the Japanese Imperial Army, sent me some notes about how Filipino soldiers during the siege of Bataan and during the guerilla days were treated in the US after the US government allowed them to be petitioned as US citizens.Rigor Jr.
For several decades from the ‘50s, Filipino war veterans could only get menial jobs as janitors, busboys or waiter’s assistant in restaurants, and as laundry aides. “The senior center where I work is a virtual repository of WWII veterans’ files, especially those who had come to the U.S. to become citizens. Since the 1990s, Filipino WWII veterans of various stripes who chose to settle down in the Northwest gravitated towards the Senior center in Seattle.
“I helped design their white gala uniform, designed their overseas cap, designed and produced the FWVW officers’ business cards.“Thousands arrived in the U.S. alone because Uncle Sam had legislated that only the Filipino veteran could come if he wished to be a citizen. They had believed that they would also receive long-awaited WWII service pensions.
“In order for them to petition their wives and children, the veterans had to prove that they had income. “Beginning in 2005 IDIC advocated in earnest for the old soldiers by affiliating with local and national organizations. “IDIC worked closely with then CAPAA Chair Ellen Abellera who made the veterans’ plight a single-minded focus. It was the first time that a community group would help to make known the foremost desire of aging Filipino soldiers who lived alone in America.
“Unbeknownst to the public, it was the FWVW’s and the IDIC’s strategic leadership that launched what became known as the Filipino WWII Veterans Family Reunification Program.
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