There’s a certain romance in the Philippine-American alliance that refuses to die. It lives in sepia photos and war stories, in the memory of Bataan and Corregidor, when Filipino soldiers stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Americans during World War II. It lives again in Korea, at Yultong and Hill Eerie, where Filipino troops fought under the United Nations banner alongside US forces. It even traipses into Vietnam, where Filipino medics and engineers operated in lockstep with America’s war orbit against the communist threat.

The myth of Uncle Sam [Editorial]. (2026, January 20). Daily Tribune, p. A5.