Follow BeltwayBlips on TwitterHouse passes bill to reward Filipino WWII vets (AP)
Published 9/24/2008 at Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - The House passed legislation on Tuesday to reward belatedly more than 18,000 Filipinos for their service with U.S. forces in the Philippines during World War II.
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